If all goes well, Tamolia on Jamshedpur outskirts will have a cancer hospital and, with it, a nursing college.
Brahmananda Seva Sadan, a city-based charitable trust, in association with Narayana Health - a multi-specialty hospitals chain in the country that is headquartered in Bangalore - will set up the twin projects at Tamolia on the outskirts of the city.
Monu Bhattacharjee, managing trustee of Brahmananda Seva Sadan, told The Telegraph that he had discussed the two projects with renowned doctor and chairman of Narayana Health Devi Prasad Shetty when he came to the steel city on April 11 to attend a cardiology meet.
"The discussion on the two projects was fruitful. Dr Shetty invited us to Bangalore for further talks on the nursing college and cancer hospital," said Bhattacharjee.
According to him, the Trust will provide the necessary infrastructure while Narayana Health will take care of management aspects.
"We have been contemplating to gift the two projects to the city for quite sometime now. Of the two projects, the nursing college will come first. It will initially have 50 seats. Infrastructure won't be a constraint, as we have enough funds and adequate freehold land behind our existing Brahmananda Narayana Multispecialty Hospital that can be utilised for the two projects," said Bhattacharjee.
He added they were looking forward to sign an MoU with Narayana Health soon.
He went on to say that the steel city desperately needed a hospital to cater comprehensively to cancer patients.
"If our initiative progresses according to plan, the cancer hospital should come up in the next three-four years," Bhattacharjee said.
Brahmananda Seva Sadan and Narayana Health had teamed up to build the Brahmananda Narayana Multispecialty Hospital at Tamolia in 2008.
Spread over 3.5 acres, the 200-bed hospital caters to mainly cardiac and kidney ailments. The health hub has five operating theatres of which two are state-of-the-art ones for cardiac surgeries. The dialysis unit with 11 machines is the largest in Bihar and Jharkhand.
