The Army's Command Hospital here took its first step towards becoming a world-class facility with the laying of the foundation stone for an infrastructure upgrade in the multi-speciality hospital on Tuesday.
The foundation for the the Rs 36.32 crore project was laid by General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, Lt Gen Vikram Singh in the Command Hospital premises. "It will transform the existing facilities of the 760-bed hospital on par with the best in the world-class infrastructure for a multi-speciality hospital," an Army official said. The new facilities were expected to be fully functional by 2016.
With a history dating back to 1870, the Command Hospital is currently the primary and tertiary care centre for the entire Eastern Command including zonal and peripheral military, air force and naval hospitals and also for the sizable ex-servicemen population in West Bengal.
