GE Health announces 1st PPP project

GE Healthcare, the $17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company, today announced its first public private partnership (PPP) initiative in the country.

The company has joined hands with the government of Madhya Pradesh and Sanya Hospitals and Diagnostic Centre to set up an advanced, hi-tech diagnostic centre at the Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Medical College Hospital in Jabalpur.

The diagnostic centre will be equipped with a GE Lightspeed 16-slice computed tomography system (CT) and a Signa HDx1.5T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system.  Sanya Hospitals and Diagnostic Centre will provide the diagnostic imaging services at the new imaging centre at an affordable cost.  

Sanya Hospitals and Diagnostic Centre will invest Rs 8 crore on equipment and in providing trained professionals including doctors, nurses and technicians to the medical college hospital for diagnostic imaging services using CT and MRI.  Currently, the Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Medical College Hospital has no CT or MRI facilities.