AHMEDABAD: Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated India’s first digital paperless hospital the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Medical and Research Institute in Ellis Bridge on January 17, 2019.
Under the Ayushman Bharat Program, the hospital will provide free treatment to the poor. The facility is an 18 storeyed state of the art super-specialty hospital that was built at a cost of Rs 750 crore. According to the PM, the 1500 bed hospital is “first government hospital with a helipad for the air ambulance”.
On the occasion, PM lauded Sardar Patel for his contributions to healthcare in the country. Talking about the hospital he said, “Earlier, the poor would hesitate to even enter a big hospital. Now, over 50 crore poor have faith that even for critical illness, the government stands with them, and provide them with medical facilities.”