Double Dose To Boost Noida, The Suburb Will Soon Get Specialised Low-Cost Hospitals


By ugesh sarkar, Section Health
Posted on Mon May 17, 2010 at 02:09:17 AM EST

Right now Noida's governmentrun District Hospital the nodal healthcare center for its 8 lakh-and- growing population operates out of a structure made from plastic, asbestos and tin. The thing has cardboard par- titions for walls.

Needless to say, it has no air condi- tioning.

What it also does not have are sur- geons. (It's a hospital with a difference).

Noida also has branches of corpo- rate healthcare giants Max and Fortis, which do not suffer from asbestos roofs and whose air conditioning is robust.
And of course they have surgeons. Who charge at least Rs 400 per consultation.

Clearly, Noida's lesser-privileged class- es don't have many healthcare options.

But late as it has been in the coming, a change is appearing on the horizon.

OFF THE SICK BED?
Delhi's cousin is set to get two multi- specialty government hospitals. The first, in Noida sector 30 -- Bhim Rao Ambedkar multi-specialty hospital -- is a 300-bedded facility expected to come up by the end of this year.

"Our first section with 80 beds is complete and can be made fully func- tional anytime," says S.K. Srivastava, chief project engineer, Noida Authority.

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"Although cost of treatment is yet to be decided, it will be nominal, keeping the common and poor in mind."

About time, say Noida locals.

"Kailash Hospital and Noida Medical Centre are the only two hospitals a lit- tle within the reach of the middle class- es," says Pooja Kakkar, 32, resident of sector 17 in Noida.

"All others, such as Max and Fortis hospitals, fleece you in the name of cleanliness and better service."

But why blame private hospitals, say other locals, when the real problem is missing government infrastructure.

Though UP notified 36 villages in the eastern periphery of Delhi as Noida as early as in 1976, health infrastructure continues to be appalling, in the mega suburb. The District Hospital, for instance, is managed by 15 doctors and 22 nurses and has no specialists for important departments such as chil- dren's medicine and eyecare.
CURE FOR GREATER NOIDA Greater Noida authoritieshave inject- ed Rs 550 crore into a multi-speciality hospital. Built over 30 acres, the Manywar Kanshi Ram Multispeciality hospital will have spedepartmentsfrom neurosurgery to general medicine.

"We should be able to complete the building by 2010. The functioning may start by mid 2011," says S.S. Rizvi, gen- eral manager, projects.

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