Cuttack: SCB Medical College and Hospital will come up with a superspecialty wing to provide patients with latest treatment options, while imparting specialised knowledge and training to medical students in an array of healthcare disciplines.
The Rs 200-crore wing will have superspecialty departments in cardiology, clinical haematology, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, endocrinology, endocrine Surgery, medical and surgical gastroenterology, hepatology, nephrology, neurosurgery, paediatric surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, rheumatology and urology.
SCB is among the 70 government medical colleges identified by the Centre for developing a state-of-the-art superspecialty wing.
Superspecialty is the third level of training a doctor can undergo after undergraduation (MBBS) and postgraduation (MD, MS, DNB). Superspecialties can both be of medical (DM) and surgical (MCh) nature.
The Union government will spend Rs 150 crore for the superspecialty wing, while the state will put in the remaining Rs 50 crore and also provide land for the purpose. SCB superintendent P.K. Debata told The Telegraph on Sunday that the process of identification of land for the new wing has already started.
"Proposals related to the location of the superspecialty wing have already been submitted to the state government for approval. A final decision is awaited," Debata said.
At present, SCB has 40 departments - three non-clinical, five para-clinical, 17 clinical and 15 superspecialty.
A team of top officials including roads and buildings chief engineer and health secretary last Friday inspected the three sites suggested in the proposal.
The sites included the old outdoor block and Behera Colony adjacent to the campus. Another patch of land near staff quarters outside the main campus on Ranihat side was also inspected.
The team is expected to submit a report to the government for taking the final decision. An official who accompanied the team during inspection of the sites said the decision was likely to narrow down to the patch of land near staff quarters on Ranihat side.
"It's a 2.5-acre plot where six senior officers' quarters are located. Construction of the superspecialty wing here will ease congestion on the campus to a large extent," said another SCB official who did not want to be named.
The old outdoor block area constitutes of a more-than-a-century old two-storey structure with more than 50 rooms. It has already been declared unsafe. The superspecialty outdoor services wing has been functioning on rooms in the first floor since 2005. The state government was reportedly not willing to demolish the building as it traces the history of the medical college and hospital.
