Super-speciality hospital to become functional soon

Super-speciality hospital to become functional soon
Archit Watts/TNS

Jammu, August 2
Patients coming from far-off areas and remote villages to Jammu will have no more difficulties at the government hospitals here, as the super-speciality hospital is almost ready to become functional.

The 200-bed hospital, which is said to be the brainchild of present Union Health Minister and former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, will have six super-speciality streams and provide AIIMS-level facilities to the people of Jammu region.

Minister for Medical Education RS Chib, who recently visited the hospital to take stock of the construction work, said that the super-speciality hospital would be made functional in a short period, as the last moment works of furnishing, fitting and commissioning of medical equipments were going on.

Chib said, “The executing agency has been directed to complete the work at the earliest so that the people could be benefited from this prestigious hospital.”

He also convened a meeting of all senior officers, wherein executing agency and Medical Education Department functionaries briefed him about the preparations being made for early commissioning of the hospital.

Chib also directed the Power Development Department to ensure uninterrupted power supply.

A senior official accompanying the minister said the issue of lawns, multi-level parking and installation of oxygen concentration plant were also discussed during the meet.

Chib said that it was the prime objective of the state government to provide better healthcare facilities to the people.

There are only two main government hospitals in Jammu - Government Medical College and Hospital, and SMGS Hospital - which cater to thousands of patients daily and are overburdened.