Tripura chief minister Dr Manik Saha on Wednesday announced the retrofitting plan for the 151-year-old heritage building of state referral hospital Indira Gandhi Memorial (IGM) in the city.
The old IGM building was built in British architecture and served the patients till 2010. After the new hospital building came up, the entire health infrastructure shifted to a multistoried modern premise but the government didn’t demolish the old structure, and declared it abandoned.
“The state government has been running Govt Dental College and Nursing College beside the hospital building on the same premise and cleared the front view of the old building. The original building of IGM is one of the heritage constructions of Tripura, which the government plans to preserve,” the Chief Minister said.
Dr Saha has directed the health officials to begin retrofitting the heritage building of IGM Hospital. Earlier, after a seismic survey, Tripura government had retrofitted Ujjayanta Palace, Umakanta Academy, and MBB College in the city while work was undertaken for the old Raj Bhawan – Pushpadanta palace and several others across the state have been under planning.