Indian NH Group keen to set up 1000-bed hospital
Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) Group of India will set up a 1000-bed cardiac and multi specialty hospital on five lakh square feet of land in the port city involving an estimated cost of Rs 243 crore.
Renowned Cardiac Surgeon Dr Devi Shetty has taken the initiative to set up the world class healthcare institution.
NH Group has already sent a proposal to Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) for land to construct the hospital. A CPA team is likely to visit two NH Group institutions in Kolkata and Bangalore of India within a week, sources said.
The proposed 1000-bed hospital with specialised treatment facilities to the patients would have 180 Intensive Therapy Units, 100 Intensive Cardiac Care Units, 530 ward beds, 40 dialysis beds for treating chronic kidney patients and 150 specialised oncology department.
There would be 15 cardiac operation theatres, 15 multi-specialty operation theatres and five fully equipped latest cardiac catheterization labs.
The other salient features of the hospital would include a fully operational out patient department and diagnostic facilities offering ECG, Echo, Treadmill test, CT, MRI, ultrasonography and radiological services.
Besides, there would be a digitally equipped fully automated pathological lab and blood bank, a special unit offering comprehensive heart/health check up programmes and a radiotherapy room for treatment of oncology patients.
CPA formed a seven-member committee with representatives from CPA, Chittagong Medical College and Hospital and the district Civil Surgeon office in this regard.
After examining and study of the proposed project, the committee made a few more queries, including those regarding mode of investment and returns, said the committee Member Secretary Jillur Rahman.
CPA on November 1 in a letter to Dr Kunal Sarker, a senior consultant cardiac surgeon and vice-president of NH Group, to furnish at the earliest convenience some information about the proposed healthcare centre to be set up following Bangladesh Private Sector Infrastructure Guidelines (BPSIG).
The information CPA sought about the project included brief description, feasibility study of reasonable depth, technical specification, estimated cost, performance parametres and the nature of output. It also wanted to know economic, fanancial and environmental sustainability, rights and obligations of the investor and the government, qualifications, financial capability and experience of the investors.
In the letter CPA also made it clear that government subsidy or existing assets, equity participation or direct loan guarantee may be granted.
When contacted CPA chairman said, "CPA responded to the proposal very positively and a detailed study is now going on to get it materialise. We have already sent a letter to NH Group asking them to send us a concrete proposal to go ahead with it."
"We have a received an invitation from NH group to visit its institutions in India and a team is getting prepared to go there within a few days," he said while talking to this correspondent on Sunday.
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