Delhi Cabinet decided to provide additional amount of 54 cr to Rajiv Gandhi Super-specialty Hospital (RGSH), Tahirpur to complete remaining works and upgrade it as per the norms of Green Building Concept. The decisions were taken at a Cabinet Meeting held under the Chairmanship of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
While briefing the media after the Cabinet Meeting, Dikshit stated that her government has been striving hard to make available the quality health services across the city by providing the world-class medical equipments and appliances and diagnostic facilities.
In order to provide super-specialty health services in Trans Yamuna area, the government constructed 650-bedded RGSH at Tahirpur to supplement the health services in the locality and to provide all advanced healthcare facilities as GTB Hospital, the only major hospital in this part of Delhi had been catering to entire East Delhi and adjoining areas of neighbouring states.
There was also a need to decongest the crowd of patients and facilitate the hospital to refer those patients to an advanced medical centre who require super-specialty healthcare. The Hospital at Tahirpur intended to provide specialty services like cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, gastroenterology, GI surgery and other specialized care and act as a referral centre for primary and secondary healthcare institutions.
In order to make the hospital fully functional and completion of remaining works and upgradation in keeping with the latest norms for Green Building and Energy Conservation, Protection System, etc. the Cabinet today decided to approve a proposal to provide an additional amount of 54 cr.
This would also facilitate the new items which were not part of the earlier sanction i.e. UPS, wiring for lane system, medical gas pipeline, solar water heating system, modular OTs with equipments and CCTVs.
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