Secunderabad Cantonment Board to recruit doctors for Bolarum hospital soon

SECUNDERABAD: Notification for the recruitment of doctors and other medical staff for the new 30-bed general hospital at Bolarum as well as dispensaries will be issued in a couple of days, sources in the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) said.
The hospital is to come up at an estimated cost of Rs 5.2 crore. Four bids were received for construction of the hospital from Y V Parmeswar Reddy, M/s DEC Infrastructures and Projects (India) Pvt Ltd, M/s Nimma Narayana Engineers and Ch Gowri Shankar of which DEC Infrastructures and Projects (India) Pvt Ltd was finalised.“We have forwarded the details to Garrison Engineers (GE) for verification after which the final orders will be issued,” a senior SCB official told TOI.
To begin with, two doctors and a few paramedical staff will be recruited.
The proposed hospital would be equipped with many facilities such as labour and consultation rooms, residential quarters for doctors and a mortuary, the official said.
The SCB is at present providing medical services to Cantonment residents through dispensaries located at Trimulgherry, Balamrai, Picket, Rasoolpura, Bowenpally and Bolarum.
“Apart from medical staff requirement for the new hospital, we need three doctors and two staff nurses for the dispensaries,” said SCB medical superintendent Dr Maju Rani. Work on the hospital is likely to begin by June and is expected to be completed within six months.