Chennai: The new government general hospital along with Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital in Omandurar will be open to public by next year, hospital authorities told DC on Saturday. The new 600-bedded facility comprising seven new blocks will have various departments including general medicine, surgery, orthopedics, ENT, ophthalmology, dermatologists, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, thoracic medicine and pediatrics.
Sources say that all the screening equipment will be made available at the radio-diagnosis department that will be separately set up on the premises. A central laboratory is also planned in the general hospital, so that diagnostic services are carried at the hospital, without sending the samples to research institutes.
Operation theaters, intensive care units and recovery wards with other super specialty services will function in the building adjacent to the Omandurar medical college. The new government hospital shall provide for the need of trauma care facility in the locality.
Medicos from the Omandurar Medical College shall be deployed at the hospital. Hospital authorities have said that four blocks of the hospital have been completed, while other three are under construction. The new hospital will be open to the public by June next year probably, said hospital authorities.
