The Hindu 15.12.2010
Emergency obstetric care centres opening soon
Staff Reporter
— Photo: V.Ganesan 
Status check: Mayor M. Subramanian at the construction site of an emergency obstetric care centre in Pulianthope on Tuesday.
CHENNAI: Five emergency obstetric care centres of the Chennai Corporation will be inaugurated next month, said Mayor M. Subramanian.
Inspecting the construction work of an emergency obstetric care centre in Pulianthope on Tuesday, Mr. Subramanian said construction of seven such facilities were under way at a cost of Rs.15 crore.
Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin would inaugurate the centres at Adyar, Sanjeevaroyanpet, Ayanavaram, Shenoy Nagar and Mirsahibpet next month. The other centres would be opened later.
The Rs.230-lakh facility coming up in Venkatratnam Nagar in Adyar would have 30 beds and an operation theatre.
The work on the 20-bed centre on Solaiappan Street, Sanjeevaroyanpet, is being constructed at a cost of Rs.108 lakh.
The centre in Vadapalani is being modernised with 35 beds at a total cost of Rs.150 lakh. The 25-bed facility at Ayanavaram is being constructed at a cost of Rs.134.9 lakh. The Rs.124-lakh facility at Shenoy Nagar would have 27 beds. The centres would have an immunisation treatment room, pharmacy, magnavision room, scan room, waiting, neonatal unit and operation theatre and adequate parking space.
