Government Super Speciality Hospital for Maternity and Child Health gathers dust; patients going to other cities for treatment
A new ₹136 crore Government Super Speciality Hospital in Thoothukudi remains non-operational due to a lack of staff and resources. Patients are currently forced to seek care at private facilities or travel to other cities.
Why it matters
The failure to operationalize public health infrastructure highlights systemic administrative inefficiencies in government service delivery.
As the Government Super Speciality Hospital for Maternity and Child Health, built at Third Mile on an outlay of ₹136 crore, is gathering dust, the patients, including newborn babies and the women requiring specialised medical treatments, have been left at the mercy of private hospitals here or being forced to travel to well-equipped government hospitals in other cities.
The Government Thoothukudi Medical College and Hospital, under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram’, got sanctioned super speciality block with 687 beds spread over 7 floors at a cost of ₹ 136.35 crore. Of this, ₹16 crore has been apportioned for procuring hi-tech diagnostic and surgical equipment, while the civil work of this block would be completed on an outlay of ₹118.35 crore. The total amount of ₹136.35 crore has been shared by the Union Government and the State Government on 60:40 ratio.
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