The Chhattisgarh Police Housing Corporation ltd will be setting up a 100 bedded super specialty hospital under Public Private Partnership (PPP) model in Bastar's district headquarters Jagdalpur.
It will soon hire an implementing agency for design, building, financing and also operation of the hospital when ready. The State Government has provisioned `1 crore for construction of the hospital in its supplementary budget for financial year 2015-16, officials stated. Notably, discussions over two super specialty hospitals proposed in Baster region was held during a meeting of Bastar and South Region Tribal Development Authority held at the Mantralaya in Naya Raipur last month.
Notably, the State Home Department will get constructed two super specialty hospitals a total cost of `18 crore.
The Principal Secretary, Home Department had informed in the meeting that the hospitals would be constructed in eight months duration and by January 2017, their inauguration had been scheduled.
It was also informed that NMDC ltd has decided to establish a 200-bed super specialty hospital. The Chief Minister asked officials to identify the land required for the purpose within a week. Notably, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) last month had also opened its third field hospital in the insurgency-hit Bastar region.
The hospital which will provide treatment to civilians, besides paramilitary and police personnel, officials stated.
CRPF's Director General (DG) Prakash Mishra had inaugurated the hospital in Bhejji—a Maoist hotbed in Sukma district. Notably, CRPF had also set up one Field hospital each at Chintalnar in Sukma and Bijapur districts last year.
Work has also commenced to establish a 50-bedded hospital for CRPF personnel at the CRPF Group Center in Bilaspur, officials stated. The project had been take up by Central Public Works Department (CPWD).
The Chhattisgarh Government's development of such a 100 Bed facility in Jagdalpur will have multiple benefits. It will not only cater to the security forces’ requirements but also address the unmet healthcare needs of the local population living in these areas, officials stated.
The facility to be set up would be equipped to cater to all the secondary level healthcare requirements of the population in vicinity with a special focus on curative and rehabilitative treatments related to accidents and trauma cases like bullet injuries, splinter injuries and injuries due to explosions and blasts.
This state-of-art facility would also be equipped to cater to special needs of psychological and psychiatric care of personnel operating under stressed and challenging conditions.
It is envisaged that such a development initiative in this conflict affected region will not only boost the morale of security forces deployed in such areas but shall also improve the condition of healthcare of the tribal population substantially, thus creating a positive environment for peace, officials stated.
Notably, as many as 259 battalions of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) are currently deployed in Chhattisgarh’s left Wing Extremism (lWE) affected regions, officials stated.
The deployment in other states is as follows- Andhra Pradesh( 16), Telangana( 12), Bihar(57), Chhattisagrh( 259), Jharkhand( 144), Madhya Pradesh( 8), Maharashtra(34), Odisha( 102), Uttar Pradesh( 6), West Bengal(53).
Presently, a total of 691 battalions of CAPFs are deployed across the country in lWE areas.