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State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has signed an agreement with Hedgewar Hospital in Aurangabad to build a 300-bed multi- specialty hospital at Sivasagar in Assam at investment of Rs 313 crore.
The proposed hospital is part of the CSR initiative of the oil and gas major and will come up at its oil and gas fields in the NE state.”The hospital is part of ONGC’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) and will come up at Rajbhari Sibsagar in three phases,” Dr Anant Pandhare, medical director of Hedgewar Hospital said in Aurangabad today.
He expressed hope that the proposed hospital will go a long way in meeting shortage of good medical facilities in entire Assam and the neighbouring states. When contacted, an official of the ONGC Foundation told PTI from New Delhi that they roped in the Babasaheb Ambedkar Vaidyakiya Pratishthan (BAVP)-run Hedgewar Hospital as the COM (construction, operator and management) partner for the proposed hospital and the agreement for this was inked on March 10 in Guwahati.”
