Growth and Development

The Institute draws monetary support for growth and development from various sources. A modest grant (of 18 lacs) was received from the Japanese government (JICA) in 1990's and was fully utilized to upgrade the operation theaters and basic investigation facilities of Sir Sunderlal Hospital. A grant of 2.5 Crores was received under COSIST program in 1990 to develop tumor immunology and hybridization laboratory. This grant was also fully utilized and helped to create division of Surgical Oncology and ICMR immunology laboratory of Pathology department. Several new equipments have been purchased with the help of 16 crores grant from the HRD Ministry in the year 2006 and are now operational in SS Hospital such as OR-I in Pediatric Surgery, Navigation equipment in Neurosurgery, C- arms in departments of Anesthesia, General Surgery, Orthopedics, combined lithotripsy and C-arm machine for Urology. A new Co-60 machine is now operational in the department of Radiotherapy and a new MRI, head CT, full body scanner in the Department of Radiology. The Department of Surgical Oncology received a grant of 2.5 crores from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for purchase of OT equipments, Laser, C-arm, Ligasure, Ultrasonic, Mammography machine, site-rite for difficult venesections and panendoscopes. A 120 KV ultra modern Transmission Electron Microscope of FEI has been installed in March 2007 in the Department of Anatomy (sponsored by DBT-UGC) the services of which are available for the entire University. This has facilitated immensely in scientific research and has lead to a publication of several papers in high impact journals such as the work showing the effect of silver nanoparticles in killing dreaded gram-negative bacteria by the Departments of Biochemistry and Anatomy.

Rapid upgradation and development is continuing in SS Hospital and the Institute of Medical Sciences even as this report is being written in October 2007, with the initiation of establishment of 1.5 Tesla MRI, 64 Slice CT, and a 24 hour comprehensive in-house Drug Shop to cater for the needs of its patients at affordable price. A grant of 120 crores has been recently received under the "Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY)". The thrust of this grant is to construct a fully equipped modern 315 bed 'Trauma Center' at the cost of 53 cores with multidisciplinary departments of Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, CTVS, Cardiology, Burn Unit, Radiology and Blood Bank. This will go a long way in saving lives of the unfortunate trauma victims in the region by an efficient and coordinated management.