The healthcare sector in West Bengal is expected to receive a major filip with big investment plans being announced at the Bengal Global Business Summit.
This included a total investment proposal worth Rs 9,698 crore across 23 areas in healthcare generating employment for more than 31,000 people.
The submitted proposals have come from the likes of Belle Vue, Bhagirathi Neotia, Narayana, Peerless, CMRI, Apollo, Woodlands, Charnock and Manipal Group among others.
CMRI is proposing a new 200 bed cancer hospital with investment of Rs 400 crore in Siliguri with state-of-the-art OT, dialysis and bone bank facilities. It also plans and extensive critical care facility and a nursing college. This will employ 1280 people.
Belle Vue plans to invest Rs 1500 crore for a 200 to 400 bed hospital in Rajarhat New Town that would employ 4800 people. Peerless Group plans a cancer hospital in Barasat investing Rs 400 crore and employing 1280 people.
Woodlands Hospital plans to invest Rs 530 crore on a new 10 floor hospital building. This 150 to 370 bed new hospital will have a state-of-the-art cancer center along with facilities for livet and lung implants involving an additional workforce of 1700.
Sreshtha Hospital will invest Rs 400 crore for a super speciality hospital providing employment to 1280 people.
Narayana Healthcare plans another 150 bed hospital in Mukundapur as well as a 1001 bed hospital and research institute in New Town. They plan to invest Rs 1000 crore for these 2 projects and employ 3200 people for that purpose.
Disha has already invested Rs 300 crore in a 309 bed eye hospital and plans another 700 bed eye hospital providing 960 employment.
The State Healthcare Committee Co Chairman Rupak Barua outlined these details while summing up the overall healthcare picture in thr state.
“The hospital beds have increased to 97,000 from 57,000 during the current government regime while the number of medical colleges have increased to 30 in the state from 10 earlier,” informed Barua. More than 72% of the nurses are coming from West Bengal now,while earlier 68% of them used to come from outside.
In addition to the Rs 9698 crore investments being planned in healthcare, another Rs 1000 crore is being planned for the surgical equipments and devices sector.
