The Chhattisgarh government would establish ‘Cardiac Care Units’ (CCUs) as a turn-key project in Durg district. The units would be commissioned for a minimum 6 (Six) bedded CCU in institutions of District Health Society of Durg .
The unit would be installed under National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardio-Vascular Disease and Stroke.
Notably, the Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) is now inviting developers to establish a 100-beded hospital in the new capital, officials stated. The plot measuring 8040.31 sqm had been earmarked in Sector-9 for setting up of the hospital.
The hospital would be developed under ‘Naya Raipur Development Plan’ 2031.
The hospital would have to be constructed by the developer within 5 yearsof signing the lease agreement, officials stated.
Significantly, in the month of October last year, , the State government started a 10-bed hospital in the State Mantralaya premises in Naya Raipur.
The hospital offers medical services to the residents of adjacent villages and Chhattisgarh Housing Board (CHB) Colony.
The facilities such as blood and urine test, minor OT and admitting the patients for treatment are available in the hospital. A physician, a medical officer, a lady medical officer along with Radiographer, lab Technician, Pharmacist, Staff Nurse, driver, Ward boy, Para-medical staff and appointments under Grade-III and Grade-Vi have been made for the hospital.
Notably Naya Raipur-- the fast emerging new capital of Chhattisgarh Government is also turning out to be the ‘Centre of Heart Care’ for patients from all over the country and abroad, officials stated.
The free cardiac surgery facility offered by Shree Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital is proving to be a boon for patients. The hospital is dedicated for treatment of congenital heart patients, they stated.
Within just 20 months of its establishment till August 2014, this hospital had set the record of performing 500 complex yet successful heart surgeries. This included 212 patients from Chhattisgarh only, claim officials.
Besides, more than 4,000 heart patients, mostly children, have been provided medical services free of cost.
Hospital officials informed that within the short span of 20 months, 225 open heart surgeries were performed at the hospital last year which mostly includes adult valve replacements and coronary artery bypass grafting.
The hospital offers its free yet high quality services to all without any discrimination of caste, religion, status or nationality. Not only the patients from various states of the country, but the heart patients from neighbouring countries have also availed the free of cost health services provided by the hospital, they stated.