Title - Railway hospital to get new OPD Block

General Manager of South Western Railway Ashok Kumar Mital has said that a new Out-Patient Department (OPD) block and an additional operation theatre would soon be set up at the Central Railway Hospital in Hubli.He was speaking after inaugurating the Golden Jubilee Railway Hospital Day celebrations in Hubli on Sunday.Mr. Mital also said that the SWR had plans to computerise all the transactions in the hospital and also add other facilities and for the purpose clearance and funds from the Railway Board had been sought.He said that after gaining the status of Headquarters’ Hospital with the formation of the South Western Railway, the Central Railway Hospital was able to improve its services.“While the other such hospitals in newer railway zones were facing several problems, the Central Hospital in Hubli has been able to come up with additional facilities because of the dedicated service of the existing staff and medical officers of the hospital”, he said.Mr. Mital admitted that earlier he didn’t have faith in the results given by the medical laboratories of the railway hospitals.