The cost of the project excluding the land cost will be in the range of Rs 30-40 crore.
"The hospital project is in a very nascent stage. We are surely aiming for setting up a hospital but we have not set any time frame yet," said Dr Rubin Shah, CEO of Gujarat Imaging Centre. "Currently we are focusing on the Molecular Imaging Centre for which we have invested close to Rs 30 crore.
A state-of-the art hospital is on the anvil," said Dinesh Patel, managing director of GIC. The company is scouting for land on SG Highway.
Gujarat Imaging Centre (GIC) and GE Healthcare announced the region's first Molecular Imaging Centre in Ahmedabad to address the growing oncology needs in Gujarat today. GIC is the only centre in Gujarat with molecular imaging expertise with nuclear medicine imaging services.
The new Molecular Imaging Centre will cater to patients from Gujarat and parts of Rajasthan.
"Molecular imaging techniques are helping physicians to choose suitable medications for a particular patient, predict and monitor the effects of those medications and personalise patients' treatment - hence contributing to a more efficient and higher quality treatment of common maladies like cancer, cardiovascular diseases or neurological disorders," said V Raja, president and CEO, GE Healthcare South Asia.
GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company Worldwide.
Our vision is to identify and treat the molecular causes of diseases long before the patient ever experiences any symptoms and GE is at the forefront of developing these early health solutions that will transform the future of healthcare, he added.
GIC will be the first in Gujarat to feature a GE Cyclotron and laboratory that produces high yields of exciting radioisotope biomarkers. These are essential for accurate PET diagnosis. In addition to GIC, the cyclotron also enables other PET diagnostic facilities in Gujarat and neighbouring states to have access to these biomarkers.
