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SILCHAR, Oct 28: “Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone of the Rs 100-crore superspeciality hospital at Arunaband on the outskirts of Silchar town in south Asom sometime in January next. The hospital will be managed by the Shri Kanchi Shankaracharaya Purvottar Seva Trust,” said K Panchapakesan, former NRI businessman who is spearheading the project.
Panchapakesan justified the setting up of such a high quality hospital with all fields of medical care and hygiene here, as the fast-growing commercial hub with a cosmopolitan population “is close to all the north-eastern States and well connected by road, rail and air to meet the general and critical medical needs of people.”
Funding of the hospital, Panchapakesan said, will come from the Centre, the State Government, donation from people and contribution from NRIs. To begin with, Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Sontosh Mohan Dev donated Rs 50 lakh from BHEL. The Union minister handed over the cheque in this regard to the trust. Dev expressed his hope that the people of the Northeast would generously contribute to the hospital. He said the entire Northeast will benefit from this medical centre that will prevent the flow of patients from the region to metropolitan cities of the country, a practice which is costly and troublesome.
Panchapakesan suggested for precise, immediate and perfect treatment. He said mobile air ambulance by inducting helicopters with State back-up would be the best option. The mission “is to have realistic pricing policy”, he explained. “BPL patients will get free treatment. Concessional treatment will be extended to tea tribes and the paying patients will be charged moderately, since our motto is not commercial,” he pointed out.
For providing quality treatment, state-of-the-art equipment will be installed, and for that talks are on with Siemens, General Electronics, Philips, Bakter, Johnsons and Kirlosker, Panchapakesan disclosed. For immediate medical care and attention, the out-patient department (OPD) will begin operation from November 15 in an annexture of the DSA complex of the town, and necessary preparations are being made. It will be an odyssey from OPD to multispeciality and finally to superspecialty.
For this ambitious project, Dipankar Chatterjee, owner-proprietor of Arunaband Tea Estate, has donated 30 acres of land near the tea garden. Research and development (R & D) will be an important component of the hospital. Considering high incidence of cancer in the region, the Oncology Department with preventive advice, chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy is also on the cards. A separate Ayurveda wing is also on the anvil. The hospital is to start with 100 beds to be ultimately upgraded to 600, Panchapakesan added. source: the sentinel assam
SILCHAR, Oct 28: “Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone of the Rs 100-crore superspeciality hospital at Arunaband on the outskirts of Silchar town in south Asom sometime in January next. The hospital will be managed by the Shri Kanchi Shankaracharaya Purvottar Seva Trust,” said K Panchapakesan, former NRI businessman who is spearheading the project.
Panchapakesan justified the setting up of such a high quality hospital with all fields of medical care and hygiene here, as the fast-growing commercial hub with a cosmopolitan population “is close to all the north-eastern States and well connected by road, rail and air to meet the general and critical medical needs of people.”
Funding of the hospital, Panchapakesan said, will come from the Centre, the State Government, donation from people and contribution from NRIs. To begin with, Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Sontosh Mohan Dev donated Rs 50 lakh from BHEL. The Union minister handed over the cheque in this regard to the trust. Dev expressed his hope that the people of the Northeast would generously contribute to the hospital. He said the entire Northeast will benefit from this medical centre that will prevent the flow of patients from the region to metropolitan cities of the country, a practice which is costly and troublesome.
Panchapakesan suggested for precise, immediate and perfect treatment. He said mobile air ambulance by inducting helicopters with State back-up would be the best option. The mission “is to have realistic pricing policy”, he explained. “BPL patients will get free treatment. Concessional treatment will be extended to tea tribes and the paying patients will be charged moderately, since our motto is not commercial,” he pointed out.
For providing quality treatment, state-of-the-art equipment will be installed, and for that talks are on with Siemens, General Electronics, Philips, Bakter, Johnsons and Kirlosker, Panchapakesan disclosed. For immediate medical care and attention, the out-patient department (OPD) will begin operation from November 15 in an annexture of the DSA complex of the town, and necessary preparations are being made. It will be an odyssey from OPD to multispeciality and finally to superspecialty.
For this ambitious project, Dipankar Chatterjee, owner-proprietor of Arunaband Tea Estate, has donated 30 acres of land near the tea garden. Research and development (R & D) will be an important component of the hospital. Considering high incidence of cancer in the region, the Oncology Department with preventive advice, chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy is also on the cards. A separate Ayurveda wing is also on the anvil. The hospital is to start with 100 beds to be ultimately upgraded to 600, Panchapakesan added. source: the sentinel assam
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