Rs 365-crore superspecialty hospital coming up in Purnia

PURNIA: The Rs 365 crore super specialty Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) project after completion will cater to the needs of people living in 11 districts of the state.
Talking about the project, civil surgeon Dr SK Verma said, “The 500-bed hospital after completion will be a premier healthcare institution in the Seemanchal and Kosi regions.The medical college will have 100 seats for MBBS students. Besides, there will be 12 seats for DNB (National Board of Academy) students. These seats will be allocated in medicine, surgery and gynaecology streams.”
“As per the government directive, the newly-constructed building will be handed over to the hospital administration by March 2022. Recently, the government has posted 28 teaching faculty for different specialities and they have already joined here. A team of the National Medical Council also recently visited Purnia GMCH for its affiliation to the apex medical body,” Dr Verma said.
“The medical college and hospital will have a blood separator unit, which will cater to the needs of dengue patients, those suffering from clotting disorder and patients in need of packed cells (only RBCs),” he said adding, “CT scan facility has also started on the hospital campus on PPP mode,” the civil surgeon said.
Dr Verma, who is an eye surgeon and has worked with Sankara Netralaya, Chennai, has also taken an initiative to set up an eye bank on the hospital campus.