City’s healthscape to get neuro, multispeciality boost
Times of India | 2 February 2025
12 Kolkata: The city is set to witness a major expansion in neurological treatment across several private hospitals this year. The state's only private hospital that specialises in neurosciences is ready to launch a ‘neurosciences campus' that will include a medical college, offering services across patient care, diagnostics, research and academic activities, along with a neurosciences university, accompanied by a speciality hospital.Budget 2025 UpdatesNew vs old income tax regime after Budget 2025: Post income tax slab changes, which tax regime is better for salaried middle class taxpayers?Latest income tax slabs FY 2025-26Income Tax Slabs Budget 2025 Live Updates: No income tax up to Rs 12 lakh income
Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata (INK), which celebrated its 14th Foundation Day on Saturday, acquired a 100-acre land in Rajarhat and the new campus will be called ‘Snayu-Tirtha'. The medical college will have a 600-bed hospital with 150 beds earmarked for each batch of 1st to 4th-year students. At least 300 doctors will serve at the hospital, while the college will have 600 students. In the second phase, Snayu-Tirtha will have a neurosciences university, which will carry out research on neurosciences and treatment. "We plan to build a separate neurosciences hospital with the university. It will cater to more patients than we can now serve and offer the latest in neuro treatment in collaboration with our partner hospitals across the globe," said INK founder and chairman R P Sengupta. The hospital now has 210 beds and around 80 consultants.
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Narayana Hospitals, too, will add beds this year, including in neurology and oncology units, as part of a ‘mega-project' that started this year. "In Feb, construction for a mega project will start in Kolkata. It will be a 1,000-bed superspeciality hospital," said Narayana COO R Venkatesh.
Charnock Hospital will flag off its new unit—Charnock Lohia Hospital—on Rabindra Sarani with 200 beds. A heritage structure, which housed Lohia Matri Sewa Sadan, lay unused. Charnock Hospital, which has a 300-bed hospital in Teghoria, signed an MoU with Lohia Trust to convert the facility into a 200-bed hospital with neurology, cardiology, nephrology, gastroenterology and other disciplines. "We hope to get it functional by mid-'25. It will particularly help patients from north, Salt Lake, New Town & northern fringes," said Charnock MD Prashant Sharma.
Ruby Hospital will have 80 more oncology beds by Feb and BP Poddar Hospital plans to add 200 beds for multiple specialities and 150 beds for cancer care. Desun will add a 200-bed multispeciality unit in '25.
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