PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, March 2: The G+5 shelter home being constructed behind the dental department of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) is almost ready with some final touch-ups to be handed over to RIMS by April 2022.
The building which is equipped with all modern facilities will be a boon for people who come here from remote areas with patients who have to be hospitalized or for their own treatment at the OPD.
The shelter home is being built by the Power Grid Corporation of India under its corporate social responsibility initiative.
Deputy Manager Sushanto Pal of Power Grid Corporation of India said that 95% of the building work is completed and most probably the building will be handed over to the RIMS by the end of April 2022.
“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 reception, waiting for the hall, a laundry and a pharmacy,” Pal said.
On the question of delay in preparing the building which was supposed to be built in 18 months, he said that due to the pandemic the work was stopped because of unavailability of labour and the guidelines of the state were also there to stop the construction work.
“Apart from that the work also stopped during the third wave where a lot of workers got infected by corona. Moreover, during the pandemic the transportation was also affected which affected our work as the materials fitted in the building are of very high quality and are being brought from Delhi and Maharashtra,” Pal added.
Asked about the maintenance of the building once it was operational, a RIMS official said that 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.”
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 had laid the foundation stone of the shelter home in 2019.
