From today the 300-bed MMCCH will offer treatment provided by all the specialist doctors of the GMCH in the outdoor and indoor patients departments, surgery, mother and child care, eye care, ENT, paediatricts and orthopaedics, Sarma said at a function in the hospital.
The GMCH doctors and professors will render their services in addition to MMCH's existing doctors and array of services.
Diagnosis of diseases through radiology, pathology, micro biology and bio-chemistry would also be extended, he added.
The 2000 beds of the teaching GMC Hospital and 300 beds of MMC Hospital will serve the citizens better, the minister said.
The patients in the Pan Bazar area could from now onwards go to MMC instead of GMCH in the Bhangagarh area of the city, he added.
For the benefit of the people residing across the Brahmaputra in North Guwahati, he said there will be a Mritunjoy boat ambulance service to Guwahati from today.
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This boat ambulance equipped with emergency medical care services from North Guwahati will reach in 10 to 15 minutes the southern bank of Brahmaputra in Guwahati where a Mritunjoy ambulance will drive the patient to the nearest hospital.
The boat ambulance will be available on the advice of a medical doctor, Sarma said.
A huge hospital with all modern facilities would also come up in the MMCCH where superspeciality departments would be introduced along with operation theatres, OPDs and patients wards, he added.