Nalco agrees to set up medical college hospital in Koraput .

Note: VAL should be pushed for the same in Kalahandi/Bhawanipatna.

The Pioneer, July 6, 2012

Immediately responding to the State Government’s proposal, the National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has agreed to establish a medical college at Koraput with 100 seats.


Besides, the company has informed the Government on its own that it will also establish a 300-bed hospital at Koraput. The Nalco has told the Government that it will send its consent letter within seven days.
The Health and Family Welfare Department had recently sent a proposal to Nalco CMD BL Bagra asking the company chief to establish a medical college in Koraput district and offered to affiliate the District Headquarters Hospital to the medical college if it was established.
H & FW Minister who presided over a review meeting over the progress related to proposals by private bodies, corporates and PSUs to astablish medical colleges and hospitals in the State, said after the meeting that he was hopeful about the Nalco starting its process for the medical college and the hospital soon.
As to the medical college and hospital proposed to be established by the NTPC at Sundargarh, Acharya said the land for the purpose had already been identified.But the Government was not agreeable to its conditions, he said and added, “We hope the NTPC will consider it and stari their work as immediately as possible.”
Similarly, about the MCL proposal Acharya said identification of the land at Talcher would be finalised soon. He advised the MCL authorities to open a DMLT training centre to meet the shortage of laboratory technicians and other technical manpower.
The Narayan Hridayalay which has already been given land in Bhubaneswar for a superspeciality hospital will start its work from September this year, the Minister said. The hospital will be 300-400 bedded initially and will later be expanded to a 1,000-bed hospital.
The Minister said for some reasons, admission could not be possible this Year at the Sardar Rajas Medical College at Jaring in Kalahandi district set up by Selvam Education and Charitable Trust of Tamil Nadu. “But steps are being taken to solve this problem,” he said.
Proposals by the Basanti Charitable Trust and the Bidya Bharati Trust to open a medical college and hospital at Rayagada are under consideration and a final decision would be taken soon, Acharya informed.
The DFID proposal for a medical college and hospital at Balangir, accelerating the process of land transfer to Sahayog Foundation for its medical college and hospital at Keonjhar were also discussed. The proposal by Shankar Natralay of Chennai to open a 200-bed eye hospital at Brahmapur was accepted at the review meeting.