Dental College, Nursing College to be shifted from IGMC: CM

The Dental College and Nursing College at Indira Gandhi Medical College would be shifted to Gharog near Ghanahatti to reduce congestion at the medical college and hospital complex.
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, in a high-level meeting, today said that the shifting of dental college and nursing college was it necessary for providing best possible medical care facilities to patients and their visitors at IGMC.
He said that more than 5,000 patients, attendants and other visitors daily come to IGMC, which was presently over-crowded and thus shifting out some wings was the only available option.
Singh said a dental wing would continue to remain in IGMC to provide emergency care but the main college would be shifted.

He said about Rs 100 crore would be spent on constructing a new 100-bedded hospital and other buildings of both Dental and Nursing colleges at Gharog and additional accommodation like hostels and residential accommodation for medical and paramedical staff would also be constructed there.
Chief Minister said a new multi-storeyed OPD Block with parking facilities for four hundred vehicles, dedicated to IGMC hospital only, would be constructed right from Cart Road to Lakkar Bazar road.
Besides, OPD, Trauma Centre, Causality, minor Operation Theatre and rooms for medical specialists would also be constructed on which about Rs 50 crore would be spent.