The Hindu 07.03.2011
MCD hospital to be upgraded into high-tech ‘medicity’
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to upgrade its existing
Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis (RBIPMT) in
North Delhi into a high-tech “medicity” comprising a general hospital
and a medical college by pumping in a whopping Rs.600 crore into the
project.
The civic agency which had issued expression of interest
for the proposed project at its Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary
Medicine and Tuberculosis has now received response from several private
firms.
Sprawling campus
The proposed medicity would come up over 50 acres of
RBIPMT which is presently a 1,155-bed hospital with a sprawling campus
of 78 acres in Kingsway Camp.
Aimed to boost health care facilities, the medicity
would include a 1,000-bed general hospital, a 200-seat medical college, a
nursing college, a college of hospital administration and a pharmacy
college. The medical college would come up in five years while the
nursing and pharmacy colleges are to be completed in three years and
would also have 200 seats each. There would also be an advanced lab for
all disciplines and a trauma centre.
MCD Public Health Committee Chairman V. K. Monga said:
“The project is being implemented in public-private partnership (PPP)
mode. We have received applications from a number of firms and would now
discuss various aspects and see which model would suit us.”
According to the civic body, the concessionaire would
refurbish the RBIPMT into a modern hospital and also build a 1,000-bed
general hospital. The refurbished RBIPMT would then have to be
transferred to MCD within two years of entering into the agreement for
PPP. The concessionaire would get to operate the medicity for a period
not exceeding 30 years.
