Dhanbad Sadar Hospital is all set to be made into a state of art hospital which will boast of facilities like ‑ clock emergency service, well-equipped ICU, better OPD facility, waiting halls for family members of patients, separate parking facility for two wheelers and cars and more. Established in May 2018, the hospital had been recently reviewed to understand how the healthcare centre could be bettered.

The process for the upgrade has been initiated. A detailed report marking details like unused and dilapidated buildings of the old Sadar Hospital campus that could be demolished and made into new units or the equipment that could be brought in to make the patient experience better is to be chalked out by the designated consultant.

The infrastructure boost of the hospital is part of district administration’s Health Vision 2024, which is being manned under the leadership of Dhanbad Deputy Commissioner, Uma Shankar Singh. DC, Dhanbad in the recent past has played a key role in bettering healthcare facilities during the pandemic.

A meeting between Singh and his team senior officials of district administration with the health department comprising ADM (law and Order) Chandan Kumar; civil surgeon - Dr Gopal Das took place recently. Sharing the details, Singh said, “During the interaction we discussed manpower deficiency, lack in infrastructure with health department officials. During this meeting officials of the building division and Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited were also present.”

“We will demolish some of the dilapidated buildings to create space for new facilities like dormitories for the patient’s family members, staff quarters, waiting hall and more,” said Singh.
Elaborating on the slew of other infrastructure boosts that the Sadar Hospital would be getting soon, he said, “We are planning a better parking arrangement having several facilities for both two wheelers and four wheelers. We are also developing a children’s park in the hospital.”

Notably, deputy secretary of the state health, medical education and family welfare department, Seema Udaipuri, who had recently inspected the hospital on February 17 also took stock of the ongoing developmental work of the hospital. She has assured that among other proposed facilities, an intensive care unit (ICU) has also been listed.

Significantly, the hospital resumed its OPD services earlier this month, after a gap of nine months. The OPD services which were launched in the hospital last year after the construction of the hospital building were discontinued since the outbreak of Covid-19 crisis in March as the hospital was initially converted into a quarantine centre and later used to conduct Covid-19 testing.