In its bid to set up a super speciality eye care hospital in Odisha's Ganjam district, Tata Steel today signed an agreement with the Tamil Nadu based Shankar Netralay.
The eye hospital to be set up at Samarjhola village under Hinjilicut Block, the home constituency of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, would be implemented and operated by Sankara Eye Hospital.
An agreement in this regard was signed between Arun Misra, Vice President Gopalpur Project on behalf of the steel major while S Visvanathan, Trustee and Secretary, Chennai-based Sankara Eye Hospital, signed on behalf of the hospital.
Odisha's health and family welfare minister Atanu Sabsyasachi Nayak, Information and Public Relations minister Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy, were present on occasion and appreciated the initiative of Tata Steel.
According to the agreement, Tata Steel will extend financial support as a grant up to Rs 42.3 crore for construction of the proposed 100 bed eye hospital and the required infrastructure including equipment to be built over 4.5 acres of land in the Samarjhola village which is approximately 17 km from Berhampur city.
Out of the total grant a cheque of Rs 3 crore, as an initial amount, was handed over to the hospital authority on the occasion.
Sankara Eye Hospital, known for providing quality eye care for over two decades, will run this hospital which will have facilities like Comprehensive Eye Care, Investigations and outpatient treatment, Low Vision Clinic, Contact Lens Clinic, Special clinic for children, Day care Options - same day surgeries, Micro Phaco cataract surgeries for spectacle free vision, Glaucoma services and others.
