NT healthcare gets a boost with hospital starting child-care facility, others to follow
Times of India | 12 December 2025
Kolkata: Several private hospitals in Kolkata are ready to set up units at New Town from 2026 to 2028, including those for cancer, critical care, gastro care, and mother-child centres. Some are also preparing to launch IVF units and enhance their diagnostic services. At least three hospitals have inaugurated new units.
On Thursday, Neotia Bhagirathi Woman and Child Care Centre, New Town, launched its ‘paediatric multispecialty hospital and department of infertility and reproductive medicine'. It is a 220-bed hospital that offers multiple paediatric superspecialities under one roof. "We will continue to have maternity and child care. This hospital will offer all superspecialities only for children, including neurology, nephrology, gastroenterology, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, endocrinology, critical care, and a paediatric ICU. Usually, in a multispeciality hospital, paediatric care is sporadically offered, and you rarely have all facilities under the same roof. Our aim is to assure parents of comprehensive care," said Indrani Subramanian, facility director, Neotia Bhagirathi Woman and Child Care.
The new hospital will address critical illnesses, too. A range of complex paediatric conditions will be treated at the new facility, including congenital heart diseases, neurological diseases, and kidney illnesses that require quick detection, high-precision diagnostics, and harmonised care, said a statement issued by the hospital.
New beds and units are likely to be set up in New Town by several other facilities, including Woodlands Multispecialty Hospital, Belle Vue Hospital, Narayana Hospitals, and Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata (INK), over the next two to three years. Narayana Hospitals launched a ‘health city' this year at New Town, a 10 lakh sqft facility for multiple speciality centres of oncology, cardiac sciences, organ transplants, orthopaedics, advanced trauma care, and critical care.
"It should start rolling in 2028," said R Venkatesh, COO, Narayana Hospitals Group.
INK, which celebrated its 14th Foundation Day last Feb, acquired a 100-acre plot in Rajarhat for a new campus called ‘Snayu-Tirtha'. It will include a medical college with 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 to carry out research.
"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.
Belle Vue Hospital is ready to inaugurate a 160-bed multispeciality hospital at New Town in 2026. Another unit is being planned at the satellite township. The building is still under construction. "The first one should be functional next year. Eight storeys are complete, and we will add two more. The other hospital is at a planning stage," said CEO P Tondon.