Public healthcare in Mysuru to witness a major revamp soon

Proposals worth Rs. 350 crore awaiting government approval

PKTB Sanatorium on KRS Road, which has several acres of vacant land, is all set to become a health hub in Mysuru with many new healthcare facilities proposed at the site.

The public healthcare in Mysuru is set for a major revamp as proposals for upgrading the existing State-run hospitals and launching new medical facilities, estimated to cost about Rs. 350 crore, is before the State government for approval and budget allocation.

The proposals are expected to come up for discussion in the State Assembly session at Belagavi this month.

“It will be a big boost to public healthcare, if the proposals were to get the green signal,” said Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMCRI) Dean and Director B. Krishnamurthy.

Dr. Krishnamurthy told

The Hindu that some new healthcare facilities had been planned on the premises of PKTB sanatorium on the KRS Road, where the land needed for the proposed projects is available.

The PKTB sanatorium premises might transform into a ‘health hub,’ once the new facilities were approved. The Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology is building a hospital on the same premises, he said.

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 super-speciality hospital with general hospital at about Rs. 120 crore; a trauma care centre at Rs. 30 crore, and College of Nursing at a cost of Rs. 18 crore and construction of lecture halls at MMCRI at a cost of Rs 23 crore. K.R. and Cheluvamba hospitals, both among the oldest healthcare establishments in the State, are the teaching hospitals of MMCRI.

Dr. Krishnamurthy said: “We are facing a serious space crunch at K.R. and Cheluvamba hospitals. We are unable to put up additional facilities such as CT Scan or X-Ray machines or establish new operation theatres. Therefore, multistoried structures had been planned to accommodate new facilities.”

In the nine-storied building proposed for Cheluvamba hospital, the District Early Intervention Centre will be opened for screening children in 0-6 years of age for developmental disabilities, under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK).

Dr Krishnamurthy said the State Cabinet had recently approved the Trauma Care Centre at Kalaburagi when it met and fund allocation for it was expected in the budget of 2015-16.

Early clearance

“We are also hoping for early clearance for our proposals, which had been submitted with detailed project reports for putting up an all-inclusive healthcare set-up,” he said. A 250-bed trauma care centre had been planned on a five-acre land.

The centre would have 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. It would have departments of neurosurgery, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, general surgery and physiotherapy.