Nagarik Sahakari Rugnalaya may be added to Covid-19 service
   Date :23-Sep-2020

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Principal Correspondent :
 
With every single hospital rendering services for Covid-19 in Nagpur, a thought has come up to revive centrally located Nagarik Sahakari Rugnalaya that has stopped functioning since long. Once known for providing services to poor strata of the society, the hospital gradually became defunct due to the reasons best known to its management.
 
Noted Cardiologist Dr Jaspal Arneja had come up with a good plan for revival, unfortunately it did not work. Later on, seniormost physician Dr B J Subhedar had taken the case of this hospital to High Court. Around a year ago, a committee was supposed to be constituted including noted neurosurgeon and Director of Central India Institute of Medical Sciences (CIIMS) Dr Lokendra Singh, present Dean of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Dr Sajal Mitra, Director of Rashtra Sant Tukadoji Cancer Hospital Dr S Dasgupta to prepare a proper plan for the revival of this good old hospital. But neither the committee was constituted nor the project moved forward.
 
Though not in a very good condition, if some Rs 50 lakh to Rs one crore are spent this public hospital can become a permanent feature for the city. It is roughly a 200-bedded hospital of which 50 beds can be put under Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and remaining beds can be utilised in High Dependency Unit (HDU). Apart from central location, the hospital has several salient features.
 
While reviving not much efforts will need, except fitting the new infrastructure at old places. Right from ICU, the ramp at the entrance, the huge space for parking, doctors’ chambers, nurses rooms everything is at place in the hospital. Even after the end of Covid pandemic the hospital will continue to serve the citizens of Nagpur and around. Some private doctors while talking to ‘The Hitavada’ expressed their willingness to render their services at the hospital.