Anugrah Narayan Medical College and Hospital in Gaya. Telegraph picture

The trauma centre at Anugrah Narayan Medical College and Hospital (ANMCH) is yet to come up despite the Centre having signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the state government in 2009-10.

According to the MoU, nine centres were to be built at an estimated cost of Rs 61.6 crore. The health ministry had also sanctioned Rs 6.45 crore, including Rs 80 lakh as first instalment, for the centre at ANMCH during the 2009-10 fiscal. However, no further grant was made available as the utilisation certificate of the first instalment had not been sent to the ministry by the state government.

The health ministry had sanctioned trauma centres to provide quick treatment to accident victims, specially, those with head injuries.

Hari Manjhi, the MP from Gaya parliamentary constituency, has written at least five letters to Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and one to chief minister Nitish Kumar to open a trauma centre and cancer unit at ANMCH under the Prime Minister Swasthya Suraksha Yojana.

Earlier, Azad in a reply to Manjhi dated December 30, 2011 had said the ministry had sanctioned the nine trauma centres, including ANMCH. In his last letter to Manjhi dated July 30, 2012, he said the ministry is looking into the matter.

Bihar health department secretary and the executive director of Bihar State Health Society, Sanjay Kumar, told The Telegraph over phone from Patna that the state building construction department has provided its technical sanction for construction of buildings of the trauma centres at the nine places.

Sanjay said Telecom Corporation India Limited has been given the responsibility for construction, which will start work soon.

In the letter to Manjhi dated December 30, 2011, Azad had made available details of the estimate of all the nine trauma centres, which is Rs 61.6 crore, including Rs 9.65 crore for grade II and Rs 4.8 crore for grade III centres.