SAIL Medical College at Rourkela – Upgrading IGH into Super Speciality Hosptial

To:
The Minister for Steel and Mines

Copy to: Shri Manmohan Singh, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India
Shri Naveen Patnaik, Hon’ble Chief Minister ,State of Odisha
Shri Chandra Sekhar Verma, Chairman,Steel Authority of India Limited(SAIL)
Secretary, Ministry of Steel

Sub:- Memorandum on upgrading Ispat General Hospital (IGH),Rourkela into a Medical College and Super Speciality Hospital

Respected Sir :

We the people of Greater Rourkela areas would like to draw your kind attention towards our proposal for upgrading Ispat General Hospital(IGH) at Rourkela into a full fledged Medical College and Super Speciality Hospital.
The first Public Sector Steel Plant in the country was set up in Rourkela in 1955, owing to its location in the mineral rich belt of Sundargarh District in Odisha. This plant attracted a huge workforce from all over Odisha and India, hence residential townships like Steel Townships(comprising of 18 Sectors) and Fertilizer Township were set up with all amenities like 24 hours electricity and water supply. For medical services, a massive hospital known as Ispat General Hospital (IGH) was established at Sector-19 and a branch of this hospital was opened in Fertilizer Township.

Ispat General Hospital is a 685 bed modern and well equipped hospital having the state of art technology with a motivated team of medical and para-medical professionals working to provide medicare of the highest standard. The various departments include Intensive Care Unit, Burn Center, Dialysis Centre, Blood Transfusion Center etc. It annually takes 33,000 admissions and looks after some 15 lakh patients in its OPD.

Not only the residents of Steel Township , but also the mine workers operated by SAIL do come here for their treatment. Also Non-SAIL employees from Rourkela and other parts of Sundargarh, Keonjhar,Jharsuguda and also from the nearby state of Jharkhand depend on this hospital as its well reputed for its health facilities. Most of the emergency cases of Rourkela are referred to IGH only.

Hence considering the above points and keeping the future needs ,this hospital should be upgraded into a Medical College and Super speciality Hospital. This would hardly require a budget of Rs 75-100 crores and would be an easy process instead of establishing a new Medical College and Hospital which will cost more than Rs. 250 crores.

In similar line , Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has already started working on its project at Bokaro which includes upgrading the 910 bed Bokaro General Hospital into a Medical College and Hospital. This hospital has more facilities than IGH like Intensive Coronary Care Unit, Haemodialysis Unit, Nuclear Medicine Laboratory, etc. Also it has the distinction of being the only one in Jharkhand being recognised by the National Board of Examinations, New Delhi as a centre for imparting post-graduate training to candidates appearing for the Diplomat of National Board examinations.

Hence it’s a sincere request to you, to consider this proposal for upgrading IGH into a medical college for the betterment of the residents of Rourkela as well as the rest part of the Chota nagpur Plateau region who can immensely benifits out of it. This includes the neighboring districts of Odisha such as Keonjhar and Jharsuguda as well.

We also propose that once it is done, it can later cater to remote areas by opening small operational units of IGH ( 40-50 Beds) which in turn will work with IGH Rourkela in terms of consulting the specialists after the primary care at the local IGH unit. The concept can be well learnt from the hugely popular and successful stategy adopted by Aravind Eye Hospital of India.

Thanking you

Memebers of
Rourkela Unnayana Mancha

And
Well wishers of Greater Rourkela Area & Odisha.

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