The Roman Catholic Church’s dream project of a medical college and hospital in Ranchi is on its way to becoming a reality. Church officials on said that work is currently on in full swing to set up a 350-bed medical college and hospital – Constant Lievens Hospital and Research Centre at Mandar, 30km from Ranchi. The proposed medical college and hospital is the first of its kind in the private sector that is on its way to reality in the state.
As reported by Times of India, Fr George Pekkadenkuzhy, project-cum-hospital director of Constant Lievens Hospital and Research Centre, Ranchi, remarked that “We have completed the renovation and modernization of the existing Holy Family Hospital at Mandar. Set up way back in 1947 with 150 beds by the Medical Mission Sisters, the hospital and the entire complex was taken over by the Catholic Bishops Conference of India on June 1, 2016, for its conversion into a state of the art healthcare hub.”
General body meeting of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, the highest policy-making body of the Roman Catholic Church in the country, had given the go-ahead to the dream project of His Eminence Cardinal Telesphore P Toppo in 2008, to create a healthcare hub in Ranchi for the poor people.
Source: Times of India
