Hubballi: Chitaguppi Hospital, the oldest hospital maintained by HDMC, may get a facelift in 13 months.
Hubballi-Dharwad Smart City Limited (HDSCL) has started the construction of a new two-story building at a cost of Rs 19 Crore.
Demolition of a 120-year structure has been initiated by a construction company from Udupi.
The building was converted to hospital in 1936 and was known as Dispensari Rao Bahadur Srinivas Balaji Chitaguppi from 1894.
In 1998 Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation celebrated the year.
Since then, hospitals have served the needs of people from Hubballi and also surrounding.
Demolition of the demolition of the main building is underway.
After completion, the construction company will start working for a new building.
HDSCL CW Managing Director Shakrel Ahemad said, “In the place of the main building a new building with the first floor will be built.
It will have a parking lot for 28 cars and 40 wheels in the basement.
The building will be built at 16,485 square meters.” Ground floor will have 26 parts including the lobby, injection room, medical examination and other.
The first floor will have 17 parts including nurses’ rest rooms, sterile shop rooms, nurse stations, group d rooms, nurse dressing rooms, doctor’s dressing rooms and others, he added.
Manish Chitaguppi, a regional manager at a pharmaceutical company said, “Chitaguppi Hospital serves the purpose of our ancestors.
We expect a large number of people to benefit from hospitals run by the authorities of the citizenship, especially the poor.” The Chairman of the Legislative Council Basavaraj Horatti said The Chitaguppi hospital building was built during the British government and was a landmark in the city.
“I personally feel the authorities must try to design buildings like the old structure itself, so the inheritance will continue.
I visited the last 2018 hospital,” he said.
According to sources, the authorities have tried to maintain a portion of the hospital but cannot be wood and mangalore tiles are used to build it.
HDSCL takes hospital development in three phases.
It will have a pregnant block at 1,068 square meters, building administration at 2,215 square meters and hospital buildings at 1,648 square meters.