Hyderabad: Foundation stone of new Osmania General Hospital to be laid on January 31
Hyderabad: The foundation stone for the new Osmania General Hospital (OGH) will be laid on Friday. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy will lay the foundation stone for the new building at Goshamahal. The new hospital to be built at Goshamahal will be built in a built-up area of 32 lakh sq ft and will have 2,000 beds. It will have 29 major and 12 minor operation theatres, with facilities for robotic surgery and a dedicated transplant theatre. The hospital will also have modern laundry, STP, ETP and biomedical waste management systems. The medical education and training wing will be expanded with 30 departments, including eight new emerging super-speciality disciplines. The building will also have a new academic block with nursing, dental and physiotherapy colleges. The hospital will have one ground and two parking facilities.
The roads around the police stadium and the hospital are being realigned to ease traffic movement with no signal junctions using strategic under-passes. According to an official note, helipads will also be arranged in the hospital and surrounding areas for helicopter-based emergency movement of super-critical patients and organ transplantation. While the new hospital complex is being developed on 26 acres and 30 guntas, the police department will redesign and develop the academy complex on the adjoining 11 acres and 14 guntas for its operational requirements. The original Osmania Hospital was founded in 1919 by Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last Nizam of Hyderabad. It was initially established as Afzalganj Hospital by Salar Jung I in 1866. It served over 3,000 outpatients and 1,200 inpatients daily, and the staff performed 100 to 150 major surgeries and several hundred minor procedures daily.
