CM Manik Saha to inaugurate 50-bed Agartala Civil Hospital soon
Agartala: The newly constructed 50-bed Agartala Civil Hospital is set to be inaugurated soon by Chief Minister Shri Manik Saha. The hospital has been established to provide primary healthcare services to residents of the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) area and ease pressure on the state's major referral hospitals- GB Pant Hospital and Indira Gandhi Memorial (IGM) Hospital.
Health and Family Welfare Secretary Kiran Gitte said the hospital's infrastructure has been completed and only minor finishing work remains before it is formally opened. He said the Chief Minister has decided to dedicate the facility to the people of the AMC area and the inauguration will take place once his schedule is finalised, reports Northeast Today.
During a recent inspection of the hospital, Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) Mayor and MLA Dipak Majumder said the project was conceived in line with the Chief Minister's vision of establishing a hospital managed by the municipal corporation to strengthen primary healthcare and ease overcrowding at GB Pant and IGM hospitals. He added that the project has been reviewed by senior officials, including the Health Secretary, the AMC Commissioner, the Central Zone Chairman, and Health Department representatives.
The hospital has been developed with financial assistance from the National Health Mission (NHM), and is designed on the model of an urban polyclinic. According to Gitte, the facility will function under the supervision of the Medical Superintendent of IGM Hospital.
Seven doctors along with the required paramedical staff have already been posted at the hospital, enabling it to begin services soon after inauguration.
The new hospital has been equipped with an oxygen generation plant, an effluent treatment plant (ETP), uninterrupted power backup, elevators, adequate parking facilities, water supply infrastructure and a dedicated triage area for emergency patients.
Officials said the facility is expected to encourage patients requiring primary healthcare to seek treatment at Urban Primary Health Centres and the Agartala Civil Hospital, allowing GB Pant Hospital and IGM Hospital to focus on secondary, tertiary and specialist care. The announcement also comes shortly after the state government barred private practice by faculty members and medical officers of GB Pant Hospital and Agartala Government Medical College as part of efforts to strengthen public healthcare services.
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