In a major push to benefit the poor in healthcare, the Karnataka government will facilitate setting up a 1,000-bed multi-speciality hospital meant for free organ transplants in collaboration with Azim Premji Foundation in Bengaluru.
Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil told presspersons that the government will provide 10 acres land adjacent to NIMHANS in Bengaluru to set up the hospital.
“The foundation will invest ₹ 1,000 crore for setting up the facility and is estimated to spend about ₹350 crore annually to maintain it. The government will provide land on a 99-year lease.” Facility for kidney, liver, lungs and other organ transplants will be available here, he added.
He said that while the 350-bed facility will come up in the next three years, it will be scaled up to a 1,000-bed facility over the next five years.
“It is a unique model in the country. About 70% of beds will be free and 30% will come at a nominal cost that will also be covered under the Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka scheme.”
