Patna: The phase-II work of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Patna, would be completed by the first week of August.

The phase-II includes trauma and emergency facilities, besides eight operation theatres. HLL Lifecare Ltd (the company involved in the AIIMS-Patna interior, electrification and other finishing touches) informed this to Union health secretary Preeti Sudan on Monday.

Sudan arrived at AIIMS-Patna to review the work progress. Sources said the Union health secretary was miffed with the project cell officials of HLL Lifecare Ltd for not completing the work on time.

"AIIMS-Patna administrative officials and doctors didn't have an idea that HLL Lifecare Ltd officials had promised the ministry that the entire AIIMS-Patna building would be handed over to the government by July-August. We got to know about it in today's (Monday) meeting. Sudan slammed the officials of the company and said she would revisit to review the progress in the first week of August. The officials then told Sudan they would be able to complete the work by September but Sudan gave the August-first-week ultimatum," said a senior AIIMS-Patna administrative official.

"It came to the fore in the meeting that the civil works related to the buildings are complete. The hospital support system work, including electrification, AC duct, gas pipeline, which the HLL Lifecare Ltd was supposed to finish it by now, remains unfinished. The company is getting the work done by various other agencies. Each work is being done by separate contractors. This led to delay. The company officials communicated this to Sudan to which she asked them to finish it at any cost by July-end and hand it over to AIIMS-Patna by the first week of August," said the source.

She also asked the AIIMS-Patna administration on why the trauma and emergency services had not been started yet and by when the hospital would start the cardiac emergency facility.

The AIIMS informed Sudan that the cardiac emergency facility couldn't be introduced until the cardiac catheterisation laboratory was made available at the hospital.

Sources said Sudan was told that HLL Lifecare Ltd had floated tender for procuring cardiac catheterisation laboratory for all the six AIIMS and selection of the agency concerned has also been done but the work order had not been issued because of which it has not inched forward.