For providing healthcare services at affordable rate across Odisha, the state government is planning to develop 19 hospitals having 2,600 beds under public-private-partnership mode.
The affordable healthcare project is expected to see an investment of about Rs 1,200 crore for development of hospitals both in greenfield and brownfield mode. International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group (WBG), is the transaction advisor for the project.
Out of 19 hospitals proposed, there will be four cluster pairs and 11 single sites. These facilities will be set up in 18 districts of the state.
"It is the largest PPP project