A primary health centre in Kerala’s Malappuram district, which was destroyed in the course of the 2018 floods, bought a recent lease of life beneath the ‘Rebuild Kerala’ initiative. Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan will likely be inaugurating the elevated hospital on July 24, officers stated.
The primary health centre was catering to hundreds of poor sufferers and its destruction was in the information then. Later, UAE-based VPS Health Care group, owned by NRI businessman Dr Shamseer Vayalil, promised to rebuild it. Built at the price of ₹10 crore, the brand new hospital and laboratory will likely be geared up with all trendy services, stated district medical officer NK Sakeena, including that it’s going to cater to a minimum of 2 lakh sufferers in a 12 months.
The hospital, which is constructed in a distant village in Vazhakkad, was designed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and college students of the School of Architecture and Planning of Thrissur Engineering College. The know-how used in the hospital’s development is Glass Fibre Reinforced Gypsum panel, also called Rapidwall, which may stand up to pure calamities simply, stated folks at VPS Health Care.
“It has all trendy services. Experts from many fields rubbed shoulders with native folks to arrange such an initiative,” stated VPS Health Care chairman Shamseer Vayalil. The hospital has a sophisticated laboratory, trendy imaging division, oxygen beds, concentrators and stabilization unit to take care of these affected by oxygen saturation, stated the group in a press release.
What makes it completely different is that it’s being made from eco-friendly know-how eliminating the standard brick and cement construction with an aesthetically pleasing design, the assertion added.
Three years in the past, floods ravaged many elements of Kerala claiming 500 lives, it was usually dubbed because the flood of the century. After the catastrophe, the federal government showcased an initiative referred to as ‘Rebuild Kerala,’ to piece collectively the state’s broken infrastructure and livelihood.
