Health concern: Minister announces many new Hospitals in Delhi

New Delhi: Health and Higher Education Minister Dr. A.K. Walia today undertook extensive review of construction and developmental works in GNCTD’s Hospital and Institutions of Higher Education, Training and Technical Education. Following the assessment of the present status, he informed that the outdoor patient services in the newly constructed 200 bedded Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital, Kokiwala Bagh, Ashoka Vihar will start from 30th January, 2013. It will provide much needed health care facilities to the residents of North and Central Delhi. He informed that it is a general hospital and will become fully functional by June this year. However, initially OPD facilities are being provided from this month end to begin with.
Dr. Walia informed that construction work of 200 bedded Hospital at Burari will also be initiated by the month end. The hospital will be constructed at a cost of Rs.182 crores, out of which 95 crores have been earmarked for civil works. It will provide medical facilities to the residents of North and North-West Delhi.
Dr. Walia further informed that Delhi Government has taken up construction of new building for Deen Dayal Upadhaya College in Dwarka at a projected cost of Rs.151 crores. The college affiliated to Delhi University with a strength of 2200 students is being presently run in a school building at Karampura. The new building will have ultra-modern facilities for academic and extra-curricular activities. It will also have hostels for boys and girls, auditorium, staff quarters etc.
Dr. Walia directed the PWD and DSIIDC Engineers to expedite the development and construction works pertaining to hospitals and higher education institutions which are in the pipeline or coming up in near future. He also directed MCD to expedite the clearance of layout plans of 200 bedded hospital at Madipur at the earliest.