Centre sanctions ₹ 305 crore for expansion of ESIC Hospital in Bibvewadi
The hospital estimated at ₹ 470 crore is expected to be completed in the next five years.
Pune: The central government has approved a Rs 305 crore fund for the first phase of a multispecialty hospital to be built by expanding the State Workers Insurance Scheme (ESIC) hospital at Bibvewadi, informed MLA Madhuri Misal of Parvati constituency.
The hospital estimated at ₹ 470 crore is expected to be completed in the next five years. In the first phase, the centre sanctioned ₹ 305 of the estimated cost of ₹ 407. The expansion work will be starting soon.
“In the Parvati constituency, there is no government hospital. This causes inconvenience to patients. We have been working for the past ten years to build a hospital on the nine acres of ESIC land in Bibvewadi, and the expansion work will begin soon,” said MLA Misal.
She added, “The seven-storey building will be built of 60,000 square feet with all the medical facilities. The ground floor of the hospital will have an outpatient patient ward, the second floor will have separate rooms for outpatient and inpatient super speciality facilities, third to seventh floors will have general to intensive care units. Along with this, the hospital will have various laboratories like radiology, biochemistry, and microbiology. The five hundred bed hospital will have 50 super specialty beds.”
Mrunal Jadhav
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