Cancer ward for children at IGIMS to start functioning in June: Minister
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Patna: The cancer ward for children at IGIMS here will start functioning from June, state health minister Mangal Pandey said on Friday after laying the foundation stone for the construction of a boundary wall, concrete road, drain and cable trench with an estimated expenditure of Rs16 crore on the hospital campus.
"Two state-of-the-art operation theatres, physiotherapy machines and two dozen dialysis machines, besides a 20-bed creative care medicine unit at the IGIMS will also be inaugurated next month," the minister said, adding a multi-level car parking will be constructed on its campus as well at a cost of over Rs 76 crore like Patna Medical College and Hospital.
Pandey further said work was going on projects worth Rs 701 crore at IGIMS, and further plans worth Rs 300 crore had also been approved for the expansion of health facilities there.
"The state govt has made a provision of Rs 1,050 crore to develop IGIMS as a super specialty hospital of eastern India. "The number of seats for MBBS studies in IGIMS has now increased to 150. At present, a total of 1,700 beds are available here and an equal number of beds are being added. A lecture theatre will also be constructed at a cost of over Rs 96 crore, hostel for MBBS students for over Rs18 crore and an eight-storey dental hospital building will also come up at a cost of over Rs 91 crore at the IGIMS," he said.
Digha MLA Sanjeev Chaurasia presided over the function in the presence of IGIMS director Dr Binde Kumar, hospital superintendent Dr Manish Mandal and Bihar Medical Infrastructure Development Corporation MD Dharmendra Kumar.
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