Jamshedpur MGM Hospital to have 750-bed capacity soon: Banna Gupta
Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, July 2: Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College Hospital (MGMCH) will soon have a total bed capacity of 750. This was announced here on Saturday by the state Health Minister Banna Gupta during a visit to the government hospital.
Gupta, who inaugurated the newly-built CT scan centre at MGMCH, said the plan to enhance the total bed capacity of the hospital was underway and it would soon be implemented once all formalities are completed.
After inaugurating the CT scan facility, Gupta said the patients coming to the hospital would no longer have to go outside for the test and added that the facility would cost them less.
The CT scan centre has been started by the state health department in collaboration with Healthmap Diagnostics Private Limited (HDPL), a subsidiary of Manipal Hospitals on public private partnership (PPP) mode, said Gupta.
RS Khokhar, Head (Corporate Affairs), HDPL, said the company has already been running X-ray and ultrasound testing centres at MGMCH for the last four years. He said all diagnostic services including the CT scan would be provided at rates approved by the state government. He said the rates are around 50 per cent less than the rates at private radiology centres.
MGMCH Superintendent Dr Arun Kumar, Deputy Superintendent Dr NP Choudhary, MGM College Principal Dr KK Singh and various other senior doctors of MGMCH were present during the inauguration of CT scan centre today.
