Foundation to be laid for new Osmania General Hospital tomorrow

The foundation stone for a new Osmania General Hospital (OGH) will be laid on Friday. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy will lay the foundation stone for the new building at Goshamahal.

The new hospital, to be located at Goshamahal, will be built on a 32 lakh square feet built up area and will have 2,000 beds. It will comprise 29 major and 12 minor operation theatres, with facilities for robotic surgery and a dedicated transplant theatre.

The hospital will also have modern laundry, STP, ETP and biomedical waste management systems. The Medical Education and Training wing will be expanded with 30 departments, including eight new emerging super-specialty disciplines.

The building will also house a new academic block with nursing, dental and physiotherapy colleges. The hospital will have a ground plus two parking facilities. The roads around the police stadium and hospital are being



re-done to ease the movement of traffic with No Signal junctions using tactical under-passes.

The hospital and surrounding areas would also create a provision for helipads for chopper-based emergency movements of super-critical patients, and organ transplant movements, according to an official note.

While the new hospital campus is being developed on 26 acres and 30 guntas, the Police Department will redesign and develop the academy campus on the adjoining 11 acres and 14 guntas for their operational needs.

The original Osmania Hospital was established in 1919 by Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last Nizam of Hyderabad. It was initially established as the Afzalgunj Hospital in 1866 by Salar Jung I.

It used to serve over 3,000 outpatients and 1,200 inpatients daily, and the staff would perform 100 to 150 major surgeries and several hundred minor procedures daily.