Super speciality hospital to come up near Silchar

Correspondent
SILCHAR, Sept 21 – A super speciality hospital is going to set up at Urrunabond, 15 kms away from the city. This hospital will be set up by the Sri Kanchi Purvothara Pradesh Seva Trust, an associate of Kanchi Sankaraharya Organization (KSO) of Kanchipuram.

KSO is running multiple hospitals all over India. Shankar Netralaya at Guwahati is also run by this organisation. K Pancha Pakesan from the trust came to Silchar. After detailed survey the organisation decided to set up a super speciality hospital in the area. The trust selected Urrunabond area for its scenic beauty and good communication facility.

The area comes under tea garden. Dipinakar Chattarjee owner of Urrunabond Tea Garden donated the land to the trust. Dr Pukesan in a press conference said that to complete the hospital, it will cost 100 crore. The trust has already approaches Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the financial assistance. Meanwhile, Santosh Mohan Dev, Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises handed over a Rs 50 lakh cheque to the trust received from BHEL.

Pakesan further said that there will hospital helicopter service for the emergency patients. The treatment for tea garden labourers and poor persons is free. Patients may not have to wait till the completion of the hospital. A separate OPD centre will be introduced very shortly in the prime location. The trust hope that the foundation stone will be laid after Kali Puja.

Aid distributed: Santosh Mohan Dev, Union Minister recently distributed aid to beneficiaries in Katigorah block. In this connection, a programme was organised where MLA, AR Mazarbhuiya, DC, Gautam Ganguli and DRDA ,PD,Naresh Ghose and BDO Eldred Firing was present. Ganguly presided over the meeting.
source: Assam Tribune