The frontal view of the newly-constructed 250-bed Sunamganj district hospital — FE Photo SYLHET, Sept 09: At last, the newly-constructed building of the Sunamganj district hospital would be come into operation in October.
The much desired structure for the 250-bed hospital was earlier made over to the health department in June, much behind the schedule.
The district's Civil Surgeon Ashutosh Das told this correspondent on Sunday, "We are preparing for a formal inauguration by the Health Minister in the first half of October."
State Minister for Finance and Planning MA Mannan, also a lawmaker from the district, would be present.
The Health Department has taken over the new building from the Public Works Department (PWD) in June last, but it could not start functioning of the 250-bed hospital for administrative reasons, including manpower and others, officials said.
Ministry of Health and Family Planning started the project with a targeted cost Tk 320 million in 2014, but it was later raised to Tk 400 million while the time was extended till December 2017 from the original deadline June 2016.
Works on the seventh floor on the new building of 250-bed hospital was completed in 2016.
Works on the eighth floor was completed months ago while some minor works of the building remained undone yet. The ICU and CCU are to be set at the eighth floor.
Sunamganj Sadar Hospital sources said the number of patients is on rise day by day and they have to suffer a lot to cope with the ever increasing number of patients, including women and children.
The delay in construction of the new building had already caused much for us since still we work at the old hospital building, he added.
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