PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, May 3: Lack of power and water connection is delaying the use of the shelter home being constructed behind the Dental department of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences.
The shelter home being constructed by Power Grid Corporation of India was expected to be handed over to the RIMS authority by the end of April this year.
The shelter home building is almost complete but due to the delay in providing power and water supply to the building, which is to be provided by RIMS, it is yet to become a boon for the patients coming to RIMS for treatment.
Manager Sushanto Pal of Power Grid Corporation of India said, “Due to the delay in the power and water supply to the building, the people of the state arriving here for treatment are unable to experience the state-of-the-art facilities provided in the shelter home.”
“On April 24, there was a meeting with the Deputy Medical Superintendent of RIMS on the issue of water and power supply. After getting both the connection, it will take one more month to hand over the shelter home to RIMS,” Pal said.
On the issue of non-availability of power and water supply to the shelter home, Deputy Medical Superintendent of RIMS, Dr Sailesh Tripathi said that a meeting has been held with the concerned departments of power and water supply and also with the Power Grid Corporation of India’s representative. Both the connections will be made available soon to the building.
Asked about the maintenance of the building once it was operational, Dr Tripathi said that it would be decided once RIMS took possession of the building. “RIMS management may also decide to hand it over to some external agency to run it properly,” he said.
The G+5 shelter home at the RIMS campus is equipped with all modern facilities and will be a boon for people who come here from remote areas with patients who have to be hospitalized or for their treatment at the OPD.
Describing the amenities at the shelter home Pal said, “The shelter home will have 310 beds and will be handed in a fully furnished manner to the RIMS. There will be a kitchen on the ground floor to ensure that people staying here need not go outside the building for food. The ground floor will also have a reception, waiting hall, a laundry and a pharmacy.”
An attendant from Simdega, Rohit Ekka, called the shelter a boon for people like him.
“We don’t have money to stay in hotels. Currently, attendants of patients have to stay on the floor of RIMS wards and run from pillar to post to get food and water. This shelter home will be of great help to people like us. I hope the shelter gets built quickly,” Ekka said.
Former Chief Minister Raghubar Das laid the foundation stone of the shelter home in 2019.
