Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel will inaugurate the redeveloped 317-bed UNM General Hospital in Vyara, Tapi district, on Tuesday. He will also lay the foundation stone for a proposed 800-bed hospital and medical college on the same campus.
The redeveloped hospital will serve as a transitional facility until the new hospital is completed. It has 383 rooms, including 217 general ward beds and 46 critical-care beds. The facility also has 24 dedicated OPD rooms covering 17 clinical specialities and can handle around 1,200 patients a day.
The hospital has four operation theatres and a post-mortem facility. Its critical-care infrastructure includes 34 ICU beds, 12 NICU/PICU beds and six emergency beds.
Other facilities include an eight-bed dialysis unit, a Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD), a Kangaroo Mother Care room and a Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) ward. The hospital has also been equipped with new-generation biomedical equipment.
The proposed 800-bed hospital will have 150 medical seats and an attached hostel. The project is being developed under a public-private partnership between the Torrent Group’s UNM Foundation and the Gujarat government under a 33-year concession agreement.