CM Yogi Adityanath sets ball rolling on 7 projects worth Rs 941 cr at KGMU

Indian Express

7 days ago

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday inaugurated and laid foundation stone for seven projects worth Rs 941 crore at the King George's Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow. The projects included a second trauma centre and others dedicated to the Departments of Cardiology, Surgery and Orthopaedic.
Deputy CM and Medical & Health Minister Brajesh Pathak and KGMU Vice Chancellor Prof Sonia Nityanand were also present at the event.
To meet the increasing pressure of patients seeking emergency services, a second trauma centre at KGMU is now being built. The CM laid the foundation stone of the building today. The new trauma centre, to be known as Centre-2, will be a seven-storey building, equipped with modern facilities, and is expected to be completed in two years at an estimated cost of Rs 273 crore. Once operational, it will offer an additional 500 trauma care beds, expanding KGMU's capacity to handle critical patients.
At present, due to limited capacity at the existing trauma centre, patients often receive initial care on stretchers. With the addition of the Trauma-2 centre, patients will have access to modern, fully-equipped beds, enabling quick and effective treatment. The facility will include nine operation theatres (OTs), a sewage treatment plant (STP), an effluent treatment plant (ETP), a firefighting system and fire alarm infrastructure.
A Patient Utility Complex will also be built within the centre providing a waiting area, kitchen, dining space and a café, for those accompanying patients. A dedicated parking facility with space for over 250 vehicles will also be developed.
The new Trauma-2 Centre will be a Category-1 level emergency facility for the state, equipped to treat patients with severe injuries from road accidents, natural disasters, and industrial mishaps.
The centre is expected to reduce the pressure on existing healthcare infrastructure by increasing the admission capacity for severely injured patients and enhancing the speed and quality of emergency medical care in Uttar Pradesh.
The medical university got a Rs 105 crore state-of-the-art cardiology wing, which was also inaugurated by the CM on Monday.
Vice Chancellor Prof. Sonia Nityanand said, 'Until now, most patients depended on SGPGI, Lohia Institute and Lari Cardiology, which often faced capacity constraints. For instance, Lari Cardiology (a part of the KGMU) had only 84 beds, typically fully occupied. The new wing adds 92 ICCU beds, doubling the capacity to 176 and easing the pressure on existing facilities.'
The new cardiology wing is equipped with two Cath Labs, high-end Echocardiography System, six Three-D EchoCardiography Machines , 96 Bedside Monitor with Nursing Station, 120 Syringe Infusion Pump, 25 Temporary Pacing Pacemaker and one each of OCT Machine and TMT Machine.
The CM also inaugurated Uttar Pradesh's first high-tech Orthopaedic Super-Speciality Centre, which is a seven-storey building offering a wide range of specialised services including orthoplasty, spine surgery, sports medicine, pediatric orthopedics, radiology, and pathology.
Nityanand said the centre is developed at a cost of Rs 86 crore equipped with 340 beds, including 220 for orthopaedic surgery, 60 for sports medicine, and 60 for pediatric orthopaedics. Among these, 24 beds are designated for the High Dependency Unit (HDU), along with 24 private rooms. The facility also houses eight large operation theaters, two minor OTs, and eight OPD rooms.
A dedicated training unit has also been established to keep doctors and paramedical staff updated on the latest medical technologies and techniques.
The Chief Minister also laid the foundation stone for a Rs 378-crore, seven-storey General Surgery building to be constructed in two years featuring advanced robotic surgery and world-class facilities.
According to KGMU spokesperson Prof K K Singh, the upcoming building will be equipped with 12 modular operation theatres, a 12-bed ICU, medical gas pipeline system, integrated networking, solar power systems, and robotic surgery units.
The administrative building of King George's Medical University (KGMU) will also soon be seen in a new and upgraded form. On Monday, Yogi Adityanath laid the foundation stone for KGMU's new administrative building, a diagnostic lab, a patient accommodation facility block, and an expanded guest house. These three major projects will be completed at a total cost of Rs 99.10 crore.
KGMU spokesperson Singh said the five-storey block will house facilities such as radiology, X-ray, CT scan, ultrasound, pathology, and microbiology labs — all under one roof. Once prescribed, all required diagnostics can be conducted immediately at the same location.
Patients will also receive their test reports via SMS. A 450-bed accommodation block will be developed for caregivers, featuring disaster management, a central command area, and lodging. The entire block will be constructed at a cost of Rs 48 crore.
An extension of the existing new guest house is also planned at a cost of Rs 3.10 crore for visiting guest professors and doctors and the expansion will include 14 fully furnished rooms with elevator access.