Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday laid the foundation of a 200-bed multi specialty hospital in Ambedkar Nagar area of south Delhi.
The hospital will have a number of departments such as internal medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics and orthopaedics besides emergency and OPD services. Officials said the hospital will be built as per green building concept and it will cost `128 crore. The health department has engaged National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC), a Government of India enterprise, for construction of the hospital.
Speaking on the occasion, Azad exhorted the people to avail the benefits of various schemes of the Union government. Addressing the gathering, Dikshit said the hospital is being set up as part of the government’s initiative to strengthen the health infrastructure in the city.