Yoga: Plans Afoot To Add Specialised Units To Make Hospital A Super-specialty Centre | Jaipur News

Jaipur: The state government has plans to convert RUHS Hospital into a well-equipped centre for specialised care. Separate departments for respiratory diseases, post-Covid rehabilitation, collaborative research and academic excellence are coming up at this hospital. There will also be an institute of tropical medicines and virology, and a convention hall here.
“All these facilities are budget announcements, and we are taking steps to start the new facilities as soon as possible. We are making progress in it,” said Dr Ajit Singh, medical superintendent of RUHS Hospital.
The hospital will set up new units in medicine, surgery, gynaecology, orthopaedics, paediatrics, ENT and ophthalmology. Besides, it will start radiology and pathology labs on a PPP mode.
To become a super-specialty centre, the hospital plans to add cardiology, neurology and urology units. It will develop a 700-bed institute of tropical diseases and virology at Jagatpura, where the state government has identified a 50,000 sq metre plot of land for it. The institute will help treat infectious and reduce the load on the city’s tertiary hospitals such as SMS Hospital and RUHS in case of an outbreak of epidemic.
The institute of virology will also help in research and early testing of viruses. The concept for the institute of tropical diseases has been taken from the School of Tropical Medicines in Kolkata while the same for the institute of virology has been conceptualised on the lines of National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune, a premier institute.