Giving present problems a cold shoulder, PMCH authorities have set their eyes on a 100-year vision document that would help the premier health hub achieve “greater heights”.

The Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) administration on Friday submitted a vision document — meant for the infrastructure development of the health hub in the next 100 years — to a high-level committee that would implement the suggestions mentioned in the document.

The committee, headed by development commissioner Phool Singh, comprises principal secretaries of different departments including health, planning and development, finance, building construction and art, culture and youth affairs.

According to sources, the chief minister had instructed the PMCH to prepare a concept paper for high-rise buildings according to the need of the health hub. Then internationally reputed consultants would prepare an architectural structure.

PMCH principal N.P. Yadav told The Telegraph: “Chief minister Nitish Kumar had asked us to prepare a vision document for the development works that have to be carried out in the next 100 years at the PMCH. According to the plan, many existing buildings would be replaced with high-rise facilities. We will demolish some of the existing structures and construct G+7 buildings. In the first phase, the plan is to make a centralised emergency, centralised outpatient department and a centralised indoor department.”

He added: “We would demolish the residential quarters of superintendents and deputy superintendents to make a centralised emergency. At present, we do not have such a centralised facility. The emergency units of the different departments are running from separate buildings. People face a lot of problem when they come with patients because they get confused in which building they have to go for treatment.”

Since emergency cases need to be treated on priority basis, a centralised emergency would save a lot of time for the patients.

“The centralised emergency will have blood bank, ICU, lab tests, CT scan, MRI test facilities,” Yadav said.

The vision document also envisages a centralised outpatient department after demolishing the residential structures starting from Ashok Rajpath to the gynaecology department.

“There is space behind the paediatric department building. We would make a centralised OPD there too. The Rajendra Surgical Block and the nursing school will be demolished to make a centralised indoor department,” said the PMCH principal.

Yadav said the administrative building of the medical college has been declared a heritage structure and it would not be demolished to make a new one.