Chandigarh: Govt mulling 500 bedded Mother and Child Hospital on GMCH vacant land
Chandigarh: After Government Medical College and Hospital Sector 32 failed to utilize the allotted 10-acre land to construct a regional trauma centre for the past 15 years, the UT administration is mulling over setting up a new 500-bedded mother and child hospital instead.
Without wasting any more time, the UT administration discussed establishing the facility after GMCH authorities failed to construct a trauma centre on the allotted land. The discussion was taken in a review meeting recently held by UT health secretary Yashpal Garg to discuss the pending projects related to health or medical education and the Ayush department.
Due to a regional trauma centre shortage in the area, the government allotted the land to GMCH in this regard. However, no such trauma centre has been built in the past 15 years. Considering the patient load on the existing mother and child facilities in the city, a part of the land has been planned to be used to construct an exclusive mother and child care hospital with a capacity of around 500 beds instead.
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