Northeast's first Super Specialty Hospital inaugurated in Assam's GMCH

GUWAHATI: A new "super specialty" wing of the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) was today flagged off by Assam's Health, Education, and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

The new super specialty hospital is centrally air-conditioned and was built at an estimated cost of Rs.150 crore. Inaugurating this new special addition to the GMCH, Biswa Sarma announced that it has 186 beds with oxygen facility, Six high-tech modular operation theatres, 171 ICU beds, 14 hemodialysis beds, x-ray, ultrasound.

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Earlier, due to the lack of hospital beds during the COVID-19 pandemic, this hospital was used as a dedicated COVID hospital and was known as GMCH COVID care. Now, however, due to a dip in the number of active COVID-19 cases, the hospital has been officially inaugurated with the aim of decreasing the rush in the Government-run GMCH. Sarma also inaugurated an eye bank at the GMCH on Friday.

This is one of the first government eye banks in the entire North-East and the doctors will now be able to do Cornea transplantation there.

The GMCH authorities have already opened a help desk for the State Eye Bank. The helpdesk can be reached at 8822380763 and 8822377199.

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