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NH Signs MoU with Gujarat Government

Dr Devi Shetty

Narayana Hrudayalaya signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gujarat Government to set up a 5,000-bed Health City in Ahmedabad.

The facility will be built on a 37-acre area at the site of Monogram Mills in Bapunagar, Ahmedabad and is Asia's longest hospital spread over half a kilometer, measuring 12.5 lakh square feet.

In the presence of the honourable Chief Minister Narendra Modi, and Dr Devi Shetty, Chairman, Narayana Hrudayalaya, signed an agreement to establish this association was signed by Viren Shetty, and the Gujarat Government.

Under this agreement, Narayana Hrudayalaya Health City plans to invest Rs 480 crore and will begin operations with a 1,000-bed heart hospital. This will be followed by cancer, kidney, neurosurgery and women a child welfare hospitals of 1,000-beds each in subsequent phases. This will also include a nursing college and paramedical training centres to raise skilled manpower for this mega project. The management is aiming at an OPD load of 15000 patients per day.

"Solutions are not solutions until they are affordable. This Health City will bring us a step closer to our vision of making world-class healthcare services and cutting-edge medical technologies available at affordable costs to the common man. This project will also generate direct employment for 2,000 people and indirect employment for 5,000 people in the state," said Dr Shetty. Targeted to be commissioned by June 2010, the Health City will offer cutting edge surgeries in pediatric and adult cardiac care at the doorstep of the people of Gujarat.

EH News Bureau