18-05-2025
100-bed medicine ward inaugurated at NMCH
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Patna:
Health minister Mangal Pandey
and assembly Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav on Saturday jointly inaugurated the new
100-bed medicine ward
at the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) in Patna built with an expenditure of Rs 7.5 crore.
Pandey said the tuberculosis demonstration training centre being constructed there will be ready by Aug this year.
The Speaker said the health services in the state were improving day by day and there was no shortage of medicine and doctors in hospitals now.
The health minister said the 100-bed medicine ward has been built on the upper floor to get rid of the waterlogging problem on the ground floor during the monsoon season.
Earlier, there were 128 beds in the general medicine department. "Now, with the additional 100, the total number of beds will be 228. There is a plan to add 400 more beds in the future. There are a total of 1,189 beds in the NMCH now. There is now a provision of an oxygen pipeline on every bed," Pandey said.
He said the food quality was also improved as the responsibility of food and cleanliness was given to the JEEViKa didis.
The minister claimed that Bihar was on top in the supply of standard medicine for the last eight months continuously and now 496 types of medicines were available at the NMCH.
"Before 2005, the condition of Bihar in the health sector was very pathetic. In the last 20 years, unprecedented work has been done in the health sector under the leadership of CM Nitish Kumar," he said.
Pandey said the construction work of TVDC (Tuberculosis Training and Demonstration Centre) was going on at a fast pace at a cost of Rs 28.34 crore.
It will be completed by Aug 15, he said.
The construction work of TB Medical College at Kadamkuan in Patna was also starting at a cost of Rs 204.44 crore.
Patna mayor Sita Sahu, NMCH principal Dr Usha Kumari, superintendent Dr Rashmi Prasad, along with others were present on the occasion.
