Puducherry to get Siddha college-cum-hospital at cost of Rs 50 crore: CM N Rangasamy

Replying to a question tabled by Independent MLA G Nehru in the Assembly, the Chief Minister said the college-cum-hospital would come up at the cost of Rs 50 crore on land covering an extent of five acres.

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Besides, Rangasamy said the government has drawn up plans to increase bed facilities and strengthen other infrastructure to meet the requirements of people thronging the outpatient department (OPD) wing in the Indira Gandhi Government General Hospital here.

The government had already proposed to procure medicines for which Rs 20 crore had been set aside, he further said. The casualty department in the general hospital would have an additional block to accommodate the growing number of incoming patients in the OPD wing.

The Chief Minister added that a CT scanner and an MRI scanner would be purchased and installed in the hospital soon.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy urged Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar to establish a medical university. At a meeting during the Central Minister's visit to the Union Territory, Rangasamy submitted a memorandum urging the Centre to set up the varsity. Earlier, the Union Minister addressed a meeting of officials of Health Department of Puducherry and the Centrally administered JIPMER. PWD Minister of Puducherry K Lakshminarayanan, Director of JIPMER Rakesh Agarwal, Director of Health of Puducherry administration G Sriramulu among those who attended the meeting.

The release said the Chief Minister in the memorandum sought early sanction of the university and also set up a radiotherapy centre, a de-addiction centre, a 200-bed hospital for infectious diseases and a pharmaceutical park.