SHILLONG: The State Government has started dismantling the TB Hospital (Reid Chest Hospital) to set up a new medical college in the site while no alternative location being fixed so far for the TB hospital.
The Government is allegedly carrying out the whole process of setting up the proposed medical college in a hush-hush manner.
The British era structures in the TB Hospital are now being dismantled causing concern among the hospital authorities.
They said they were verbally told about the medical college to be set up under PPP mode at the hospital campus.
A few doctors are annoyed over the Government move to construct the medical college without providing an alternate hospital for the TB patients, around 130, undergoing treatment in the hospital.
The doctors suggested that the medical college could be set up at Mawdiangdiang on the outskirts of the city without disturbing the TB Hospital set up in 1943.
Ironically, the authorities still maintained that no permanent site has been fixed to set up the medical college.
“Various sites including the TB Hospital campus have been proposed and the matter will be decided in a Cabinet meeting next week,” Commissioner and Secretary, Health, DP Wahlang said.
Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma had in October last year visited the TB hospital and expressed his keenness to set up the Shillong Medical College in the 25-acre land.
The Government had signed an MoU with the International Finance Corporation to set up the medical college on a public-private partnership (PPP) mode.
