PM Modi to lay stone for 200-bedded National Centre on Ageing at IMS-BHU
Varanasi: A National Centre on Ageing (Department of Geriatrics Medicine) will come up at the Institute of Medical Science (IMS), BHU, with PM Narendra Modi slated to lay the foundation stone of the centre during his proposed visit on Feb 23.
The Centre will be built with a budget of Rs 147.39 crore.
Talking to TOI, divisional commissioner Kaushal Raj Sharma said with a budget of Rs 147.39 crore, the multi-storey building of centre will be constructed on an area of 2,045 square metre. It will have connectivity with super specialty hospitals to avail facilities of cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, urology, surgery and other departments for senior citizens.
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All other facilities, including ICU, dialysis, daycare, registration, pharmacy, radiodiagnosis, physiotherapy, yoga, knowledge and research will also be available. The OPD of the centre will have 14 doctors' rooms while 200 beds would be available in indoor patient unit, he said.
Providing details of the project, nodal officer of BHU’s Regional Geriatric Centre Prof Anup Singh said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) had launched National Programme for Health Care of the Elderly (NPHCE) in 2010-11 to provide accessible, affordable and high-quality long-term care services to elderly people and IMS-BHU was designated as Regional Geriatric Centre (RGC), under NPHCE. Two primary objectives of RGC-- creation of a full-fledged independent Department of Geriatric Medicine and initiation of MD Geriatrics course (3 seat/year)--have been achieved.
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