Chennai: A 750-bed multispecialty paediatric hospital will be built on six acres at the King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research campus in Guindy, health minister Ma Subramanian said here on Sunday.
The hospital will be attached to a postgraduate and super-specialty paediatric institute that will function as a constituent medical college of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University.
It will be the third hospital on the campus after Kalaignar Centenary Super-speciality Hospital and the National Institute of Ageing.
The state has set aside 487.66crore for construction of a seven-storey (including the ground floor) hospital building on 3.15lakh sqft, with hostels and other medical infrastructure.
“This is the highest allocation for a hospital in the state so far,” said Ma Subramanian, who visited King Institute along with senior health officials including health secretary P Senthilkumar to inspect the proposed site.
“We got the nod from the chief minister last week. Tenders will be allocated soon, and construction is likely to begin in Sept. The institute will be funded and run entirely by the university,” he added.
The hospital will have 100-bed intensive care units, pay wards, shared wards, and suites. University vice-chancellor Dr K Narayanasamy said the facility will have 20 departments, including 14 unique departments.
These include medicine, critical care, surgery, gastroenterology, orthopaedics, neurology, nephrology, pulmonology, cardiology, urology, hemato-oncology, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, and an organ transplant unit.
“After the hospital is established, we will start postgraduate super-specialty courses in paediatrics, and the institution will serve as a centre of excellence for paediatric care in rare diseases.
It will also undertake research to bridge the gap between academic learning and real-world paediatric healthcare delivery,” he said. The new institute will also help the university take part in NIRF rankings, he added.
