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Sheila lays foundation for 200-bed hospital

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To be dedicated to late Congress leader Deep Chand Bandhu

The hospital will be constructed within 18 months at a cost of Rs 93 crores in Ashok Vihar
It would provide secondary level healthcare to the people of under-developed localities

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday laid the foundation stone of the 200-bed Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital at Kokiwala Bagh in Ashok Vihar. The hospital would be constructed at a cost of Rs 93 crores within 18 months.

Speaking on the occasion, Ms. Dikshit, who was accompanied by Delhi Health Minister Yoganand Shastri and area MLA Mange Ram Garg, said the hospital would be dedicated to late Deep Chand Bandhu, as he had represented Wazirpur constituency in the Legislative Assembly.

Multi-disciplinary

The Chief Minister said the hospital would provide health care to a large number of people, including the poor, pregnant women and senior citizens. It would be developed as a multi-disciplinary hospital with various medical, nursing, para-medical and other ancillary services.

Coming up on a 20,000 square metre plot that was allotted by Delhi Development Authority, the would provide secondary level healthcare services to a population of about 5 lakh people, primarily living in jhuggi clusters, slums and under-developed localities, around Ashok Vihar and GT Road. Equipped with a modern outdoor patient department block, operation theatres, laboratory, library and service block, the hospital would also ensure that area residents no longer had to go long distances for health related problems.

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