Delhi: Superspeciality wing of RML Hospital hits a roadblock

Officials have further implied that that the hospital has now completely reworked the construction plan. From an 8-storey building with a three-level basement, it will now be a 16-storey building.  Dr Sood further confirmed that the revised plan has been submitted now.

A re-development plan, with an aim to change the face of the hospital to turn into a modern and upgraded version has been under consideration for some time. Few of the details of the plan include a 2500-bed hospital by 2025, at an estimated cost of Rs 790 crore. This hospital will include a a 450-bed super speciality wing, a maternity and child unit and a multi-level parking.

Not only the hospital, but even patients are suffering. Due to lack of proper facility, patients are being referred to other hospitals for super-speciality surgeries. "We have no other option. Until the work for the superspeciality wing is completed, we cannot address issues faced by all the patients. We have to refer them to other hospitals," another senior doctor from the hospital said.

" To add to our misery, right next to the emergency wing, roughly around 0.75 acres of land has been allotted to an NGO, which is further renting the land for private parties. It seems that public welfare is taking a backseat to the residential needs of the presidential employees, and even that of an NGO, both of which can be easily shifted somewhere else and the land can be used for helping poor patients," Dr Sood added.