SSG hospital in for a face-lift

Hospital Medical Superintendent K J Sheth told Express Newsline that soon the Trust would have four new ambulances and the hospital’s old seven ambulances would be upgraded and equipped with wireless sets. Admitting that the seven vehicles were not being utilised optimally though it was a basic necessity, he maintained that now vehicles would work in co-ordination with government and non-government agencies to meet any emergency.

Besides, construction work for a de-addiction centre has also begun. The centre, expected to be completed in about a year’s time in phases, will have modern equipment, drugs and separate teams of doctors and NGOs to enable rehabilitation of the addicts.

According to official information, the project has been funded by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

According to Sheth, the upgradation of the hospital was planned, after recent meetings with the alumni association of the M S University and the Baroda Medical College. The hospital has been recently recognised by WHO for training centres for visiting experts from all over the world.

According to official sources, the Netherlands government has agreed to fund in-principle upgradation of several faculties, including the truama centre and the urology department. The sources added the hospital may get more than 150 wheel-chairs and as many soft-bed stretchers, as the existing ones were in bad condition.

The hospital authorities hope for more financial assistance from philanthropist individuals and organisations for the upgradation of the hospital.