Superspecialty hospital for children in Patna soon: Health department – ET HealthWorld

PATNA: The state health department has planned to come up with a superspecialty hospital for children in Patna. The proposed state-of-the-art facility is targeted to be made functional in two years.

An announcement in this regard was made recently by health minister Mangal Pandey during the monsoon session of the state assembly. Department’s additional chief secretary Pratyaya Amrit said concept approval for the construction of a hospital exclusively for children has been done and they are now focusing on planning and execution. Amrit said the department was in touch with the best consultants and the aim is to make the best hospital for children in eastern India.

“All treatment facilities for children will be there at the hospital and we want to make it functional in record time,” Amrit said. This will be the first government hospital exclusively for children in Patna and second one in Bihar after a PICU hospital in Muzaffarpur. However, Amrit said the hospital would be bigger in size than the PICU hospital in Muzaffarpur which was also constructed in a record time.

Sources said the need for a superspecialty hospital was felt at a recent high-level meeting of the health department to chalk out ways to tackle the likely third wave of Covid pandemic. All the beds at the proposed hospital will have oxygen facility.