Fever Hospital will be restored by March-end

By T. Lalith Singh

HYDERABAD, JAN. 25. The work to restore the Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases, Nallakunta, which was badly damaged during the heavy rain in August last year, is moving at a brisk pace. The hospital is expected to be fully restored by the end of March.

The hospital which on an average has 1,500 in-patients apart from 800 persons in the out-patient ward every day for diseases such as gastroenteritis, encephalitis, measles, malaria and jaundice, remained inundated for several days with rain waters that flooded the city. Six wards and staff quarters were completely submerged and the auditorium sank in the wake of the heavy downpour.

According to the Institute Superintendent, Dr. K.N. Sudha Ramana, the restoration was being carried out with a budget of Rs.96.62 lakhs sanctioned by the State Government. But, the work was slightly hampered as the earth turned out to be rocky in nature. `As the premises belongs to the hospital and is located in the heart of the city, we could not blast the rocks to expedite the work,' hospital authorities said.

The rocks were being laboriously dug out to pave way for adding new staff quarters and also a building for locating different wards to the existing complex. The authorities who in August last year closed down the wards and sent the patients to other hospitals when the complex remained under a sheet of water, now claim to have reopened all the wards. `The patient care is not affected as all the wards have become fully functional. Once construction is completed and new blocks are added, we hope to offer more comforts to the patients,' Dr. Sudha Ramana said.

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