Rajkot|HL
Rajkot city soon get its super-specialty hospital , the state government on Friday announced that a super-specialty hospital shall be set up in Rajkot,
This hospital shall be associated with the city’s present civil hospital.
The minister of state for health and family welfare Shankar Chaudhary, in reply to a question by Rajkot East MLA Indranil Rajyaguru, said that that the Centre has also given the go-ahead for the super-specialty hospital in Rajkot. The Rs 200-crore project will be funded by the state and Centre. The majority of the funds, Rs 120 crore, will come from the centre while the state will bear the rest of the cost.
The minister said the super-specialty hospital will have facilities for kidney, heart and neurology treatments, among others. He announced that the new hospital will have an additional 45 bed intensive care unit and 12 more operation theatres with the most modern equipment.
