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Bhubaneswar, April 3: The Union government will soon start work on a super specialty Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) hospital in the state.
“The Centre will construct a super specialty hospital in a phased manner at a cost of about Rs 400 crore. It will have approximately 500 beds,” Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in a statement.
Two more ESIC hospitals with 100 beds each would be established in Angul and Duburi at an estimated cost of about `100 crore each, he said.
The corporation has also taken up renovation of existing hospitals here at a cost of `66.49 crore. The project is almost complete, he said.
Few days ago, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had written to Union labour and employment minister Bandaru Dattatreya urging the later to set up the proposed super specialty hospital soon. The hospital would be set up at Jagannath Prasad, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, for which the state government earmarked 25 acres of land in 2009.
Earlier, the Centre had announced the setting up of a medical college and hospital at that place. However, in January, the Centre changed the plan and decided to set up a super specialty hospital there.