Indian hospital selects winner
24 April 2012
The state government of Odisha, India, has selected a winner to build a new 700-bed hospital through PPP.
The "super-specialty" hospital, to be built in Sambalpur town at the cost of Rs 170 crore (US$32m), will be designed, built and operated by Kolkata-based contractor Desun Hospital. The government will provide the team with seven acres of land, with the hospital set to be operational by late 2015.
The hospital will have 24 specialty departments, 30 operation theatres, two digital cauterization laboratories, a general nursing and midwifery school and a paramedical training centre.
The government also signed this week a memorandum of understanding with Sahyog Foundation to build a medical college in Keonjhar, as well as identifying two more sites in the state for the construction of two medical institutes using PPP; the India Institute of Medical Sciences and the regional Institute for Paramedical Sciences.
