Minister Amit Shah to inaugurate first Cardiothoracic & Neurosciences Centre in Guwahati on May 9

Guwahati: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Assam on a two-day trip on May 9 and 10. He announced that he will inaugurate the Cardiothoracic & Neurosciences (CN Centre) under the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) on May 9 evening.

The plan for the centre was announced by then-Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in 2008, and the foundation stone was laid the same year.

Unlike any other hospital in the Northeast, this is the northeast's first Cardiothoracic and Neuroscience Centre in the government sector. Now patients won't have to travel outside the state for the treatment. The centre has been established to reduce the overload of patients on GMCH.

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The advanced centre will now cater to the needs of people with heart and nerve diseases including departments — Cardiology, CTVS, Neurology & Neurosurgery. The centre comes in all in one package facilities like 24x7 functional CathLabs and Pacemaker implantation facilities, dedicated ICUs, Pre-& post-Operative Wards, 7 Modular Operation Theatres, High-End Operative Endoscopy and Neuro Navigation System, Sophisticated heart Lung Machine, 3 Tesla MRI, 256 Slice CT Machine, High-End Neurophysiological Investigations, fully automated dry Chemistry and Hormone Analyser and WIFI-enabled smart building.

The hospital has been scheduled to be operational for patients from May 10.

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While speaking with The Sentinel, Health Minister Keshab Mahanta said, "The hospital is ready to serve people. Affordable treatment will be provided to the patients."

GNRC (formerly known as Guwahati Neurological Research Centre), the first super specialty healthcare centre in North East India, was established in 1987 by neurologist Dr. Nomal Chandra Borah. Born into the family of a marginal farmer in Sonitpur district of Assam, Dr. Borah has scaled professional and entrepreneurial heights through the sheer dint of his intellectual capability and indomitable spirit, steadfast in his pursuit of delivering 'Health for All, Smiles for All', through his social enterprises. GMCH serves around one lakh indoor patients and eight lakh outdoor patients annually.