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Tatas
to set up Kolkata medical centre
The
Asian Age — February 22, 2006
The
Tata Group has decided to set up a Tata Medical Centre
in Kolkata like its 65-year-old Tata Memorial Centre
in Mumbai. The Tata Medical Centre, which is slated
to be completed by December 2007 with an investment
of Rs 120 crores, will be a state-of-the-art facility
for treatment and research in cancer. Announcing the
project, Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata said in Kolkata
on Tuesday that the centre located on a 10-acre plot
at Rajarhat would have 150 beds for patients suffering
from cancer of which 50 per cent of beds would be earmarked
for poor patients.
Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
laid the foundation stone for the Tata Medical Centre
on Tuesday. The TMC will be supported by the Tata Medical
Centre Trust -- a newly created trust through funding
from three Tata trusts -- Sir Dorab Tata Trust, Sir
Ratan Tata Trust and Jamsetji Tata Trust and Tata Group
companies. The centre will be a tertiary care centre
for cancer and will promote prevention, cure, rehabilitation
and palliative care. It will also offer diagnostic and
therapeutic services, provide education and conduct
basic and clinical research.
The centre will also have an
outpatient and ambulatory care facility for cancer patients.
Speaking to media persons, Mr Tata said: "Recently,
I have become very much emotionally bonded to West Bengal
for the `sincere drive' of the chief minister Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee. He has actively been pursuing his desire
to lift this state to the vanguard of the front running
states of the country."
Mr Bhattacharjee is the
driver who led us to select Bengal as the new destination
of our dream project. This is not a commercial project
but a commitment for the cause of society, Mr Tata added.
Terming Mr Tata as a corporate leader with a difference,
Mr Bhattacharjee assured that the state government was
ready to cooperate with the Tata Group in every sphere
to make the TMC as a `Centre of Excellence'. The Tata
Group has asked for over six acres of land for the centre.
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