Multi-specialty hospital at Omandurar Estate nearing completion
Posted on: 08/Nov/2013 2:09:59 PM
Earlier it was supposed to be assembly cum secretariat complex on Omandurar Estate. When Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa came to power she wanted to convert this building to a multi-specialty hospital. Now as per her instructions, the work was taken over by Public Works Department (PWD). Over 90 per cent of the work to convert the third to sixth floors into general and special wards and other civil work had been completed. The floors comprising the wards will be air-conditioned.
About 80 per cent of the project to convert rooms into 14 operation theatres has been finished so far. The circle above the public plaza facing Wallajah Road, which had offices of the home and public departments, is being modified to hold operation theatres.
Ramps are also being constructed on both sides of the building to take patients to all six floors. The ramps have reached the fourth floor now.
Nearly 400 workers are engaged in building aluminium partitions or walls between long hallways to convert them into wards, doctors’ rooms and operation theatres. The assembly hall, council and cabinet halls will be used to hold medical conferences.
The entire project has been taken up at a cost of Rs. 26.29 crore. It will function as a 500-bed referral hospital with nine departments such as neurosurgery and medical oncology.
