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Mumbai: After a decade-long wait, Gokuldas Tejpal (GT) Hospital will have its own medical college building as state govt has sanctioned nearly Rs 210.8 crore for the construction of the college block, hostels, and staff quarters.
The hospital began its first MBBS batch of 50 students last year and is currently awaiting approval for an intake of 100 students from the National Medical Commission (NMC).The new college building is planned as a G+12 floored structure and will be constructed within the hospital campus. The existing doctors’ quarters, spread across 1.5 acres, will be demolished. According to the official recapitulation sheet, the total built-up area of the project will be nearly 34,780.5 sq m, which includes 15,609 sq m for the college building and 9,585.7 sq m each for the boys’ and girls’ hostels.
“It will have all the required facilities as per NMC guidelines.
The lecture halls will be able to accommodate 200 students if the govt asks us to expand at any point,” said a medical official.The hospital has been struggling with a space crunch for some time now. Earlier, there were deliberations on scaling down its dedicated transgender ward, which witnesses far fewer admissions, and turning that space into a specialty service such as cardiology or nephrology.
There has also been back and forth with state govt to move its adjacent ‘chota mantralaya’ elsewhere and hand over the building back to the hospital so it can function as a tertiary care facility effectively. The building remains GT Hospital on paper with offices functioning from it. “It will take another two to three years for the new buildings to be constructed. In the meantime, we need the adjacent building back to expand the hospital as the current building is a heritage structure with restrictions on repairs,” the official said.