Will Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who is presenting the State Budget on Friday, apportion funds for revamping the public healthcare setup in Mysuru?
Healthcare professionals, mainly those attached to the Department of Medical Education, have set their eyes on Mr. Siddaramaiah, as expectations are high in his home district.
Sources in the department, who have submitted a proposal to the Chief Minister, told The Hindu, “If the proposals manage to get the allocation, it will certainly lift public healthcare and people can expect corporate-like services.”
The proposals include upgrading of K.R. Hospital at a cost of Rs. 95 crore; modernisation of Cheluvamba Hospital at a cost of Rs. 75 crore; setting up of a Rs. 250 crore-super-speciality hospital; a trauma care centre at the cost of Rs. 30 crore; a Rs. 18 crore-nursing college; and construction of lecture halls at Mysore Medical College and Research Institute at a cost of Rs. 23 crore. Sources say the proposals had been submitted a few months ago on the instruction of the Chief Minister.
“The overhaul of the setup required heavy funding but the revamp will go a long way in providing better healthcare services to the needy,” the sources add.
Pending
The District Early Intervention Centre had been planned in the nine-storey building proposed for Cheluvamba Hospital for screening children in the 0-6 years age group for developmental disabilities under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram.
A 250-bed trauma care centre, announced last year, had been planned on five acres of land.
It would have departments of neurosurgery, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, general surgery and physiotherapy.
Four operation theatres, a laboratory, a casualty ward, a blood bank, MRI and CT scan and X-ray facilities, 14 special wards, 11 general wards and four intensive care units will be part of the centre.
