Work to build hospital at Chennai’s King Institute premises to begin this month
The Hindu
The 500-bed facility, coming up on 4.8 acres, is expected to reduce the burden on the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and benefit residents of south Chennai
Work to construct a new, multi-super speciality hospital on the premises of the King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research, Guindy, may begin by this month. The Public Works Department (PWD) is set to finalise the tender in the next couple of weeks.
The PWD is likely to award the work order this month after the foundation-laying ceremony. It may be recalled that the State government had announced that a hospital would be built at the nearly 4.8-acre site on the King Institute premises at a cost of ₹250 crore last year.
Sources in the PWD said the new six-storeyed hospital would come up at a space, spread over nearly 5.53 lakh square feet on the premises. The 500-bedded facility would have three blocks and comprise various specialities, including plastic surgery, surgical oncology and cardiology.