Wings to healthcare

A Rs 100-crore hospital being built at Urrnabandh tea estate, 12km from Silchar town, will give “well-equipped” a whole new meaning.

The 100-bed healthcare unit will have a chopper ready to airlift patients from Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur.

Being built by a non-governmental organisation, the hospital will come up in three phases over the next three years.

In the first phase, the hospital will have 100 beds with all the necessary departments. In the second and third phases, arrangements will be made for 300 and 450 beds respectively, said K. Panchpakeshan, a spokesman for the NGO.

A tea planter has donated 30 acres from his plantation in Urrnabandh to build the hospital, which will provide free treatment to the poor.

Panchpakeshan hoped the hospital would turn Cachar into the healthcare hub of South Assam.

source: telegraph india