GUWAHATI: The construction of Guwahati’s second medical college will start from January 1 next year, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said here on Sunday.
This medical college will be set up at the present site of Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital at Panbazar. The new college will be formed by amalgamating MMCH and the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Chest Hospital at Kahilipara here in the city at an estimated cost of over Rs 800 crore.
Union home minister Amit Shah in December last year had laid the foundation stone of this new medical college, which will be the second one after Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), which was started in 1960.
Sarma said that the services at Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital will be shut from January 1, 2022 to facilitate the construction of the new medical college. He said that the patients at MMCH will be shifted to Pandu FRU and the hospital at Dhirenpara and will be run by GMCH. “The doctors of MMCH will be able to provide services to the patients at Pandu FRU and Dhirenpara hospital,” he added.
This medical college will be set up at the present site of Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital at Panbazar. The new college will be formed by amalgamating MMCH and the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Chest Hospital at Kahilipara here in the city at an estimated cost of over Rs 800 crore.
Union home minister Amit Shah in December last year had laid the foundation stone of this new medical college, which will be the second one after Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), which was started in 1960.
Sarma said that the services at Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital will be shut from January 1, 2022 to facilitate the construction of the new medical college. He said that the patients at MMCH will be shifted to Pandu FRU and the hospital at Dhirenpara and will be run by GMCH. “The doctors of MMCH will be able to provide services to the patients at Pandu FRU and Dhirenpara hospital,” he added.
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