Odisha has set a record by planning to set up 1,000-bed hospitals exclusively to treat deadly Novel Corona Virus patients in the State capital. Following Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s direction to provide state-of-the-art facilities to Covid 19 patients, Odisha has planned biggest hospitals in the country exclusively.
Accordingly, the State Government has signed two tripartite agreements with SUM and KIIMS Medical Colleges here. These hospitals will be the State facility for Covid 19 treatment. OMC and MCL will provide the CSR funding for the purpose. Both the new facilities will be functional in a fortnight. The first MoU was signed by the Government of Odisha represented by Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Nikunja Bihari Dhal, Managing Director of OMC, Vineel Krishna and the KIIMS management to set up a 450 bedded hospital.
The second MoU was signed by Health Secretary Dhal, S S Panda of MCL and SUM Hospital management to set up a 500 -bedded hospital plus ICU facilities.
CM Patnaik congratulated the partners and thanked the corporates like OMC and MCL for coming forward and working in synergy in the interest of the people of the State.
