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| Work on medical colleges upgrading to begin soon | | | Jammu, June 10 Work on the ambitious health project- up gradation of Jammu and Srinagar Medical colleges- covered under the Prime Ministers Swasthya Surakshya Yojana is expected to start anytime in the month of August, official sources said here.
Despite receiving central govt’s nod for starting the up gradation work of Jammu medical college at a total project cot of rs 120 crore the state govt was awaiting fresh nod for the Srinaagr medical college separately to start the work simultaneously at both the project sites, official sources said.
“Yes we have received clearance for Srinagar Medical college days ago and now we expect to start work on both the projects in August,” a senior officer of the health department privy to the recent developments said.
He said, the decision was taken by the central govt to upgrade various other medical colleges across the country to further enhance the infrastructure capacity to deal with the growing demand of patient care facilities.
He said that so far central Government
has cleared these projects in five states,including
Lucknow and Hyderabad .
Under the scheme upgradation work of each college
will cost Rs.120 crores out which the centre would
release Rs.100 crores and the remaining Rs.20 crores
would be the state's equity.This way Jammu and
Kashmir
will get Rs.200 crores and the state's contribution
would be Rs.40 crores.The civil work in Srinagar and
Jammu is to be carried out by a central agency.In case
the work was started in August the upgradation
programme in Srinagar Medical college was to be
completed within two years and that in Jammu within 18
months.The project sites have already been cleared at a high level meeting.
On the Srinagar project about Rs.54 crores are to be
spent on civil works and the remaining Rs.66 crores on
procurement and purchase of equipment.Compared to this
in Jammu over Rs.48 crores are to be spent on civil
works and the remaining Rs.72 crores on equipment.
On completion of these projects the two medical
colleges will have number of superspeciality faculties
which would spare people from visiting AIIMS or
other
top institutes in the country for treatment.
Besides the Sher-i- Kashmir Institute of Medical
Sciences the state has two medical colleges in the
private sector. The Mata Vaishnov Devi Shrine Board has
already released funds for the construction of a
hospital in Udhampur district.It will also have
latest equipments in its surgery and diagnostic faculties.
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