14-storey building for Regional Cancer Centre

A 14-storey building will be constructed at the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) to expand its facilities.

In a press release issued here on Friday, Health Minister K.K. Shylaja said the Cabinet had decided to hand over the construction to a government-approved agency, Uralungal Labour Contract Society. Administrative sanction for ₹187.22 crore for the construction has been given.

The building, spread over an area of 26,000 square metres, is expected to be completed over two years. It will be constructed in the area behind the existing RCC building. The two floors underground will be set aside for parking. The ground level will be for brachytherapy suite and linear accelerator, meant for cancer treatment.

The microbiology department and the blood bank will be located on the first floor while the second floor will be for the nuclear medicine wing.

The third and fourth floors will be for patients’ wards. The operation theatre and the Intensive Care Unit will be located on the fifth floor while the leukaemia ward will be on the sixth floor. On the seventh floor, bone marrow transplant wing and the education section will be located.

The eighth and ninth floors will be for nurses’ hostel and postgraduate students’ hostel.

The tenth floor will house the lecture hall, staff room, library, and guest room. The top floors are meant for future expansion.

The building will have 250 beds. Six operation theatres and ten bone marrow transplant facilities will be available.

THE HINDU