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Meghalaya CM inaugurates Rs 31-crore maternity and child hospital in Nongstoin
- •Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma inaugurated a Rs 31.05-crore maternity and child health hospital in Nongstoin to improve specialist care for pregnant women and newborns.
- •The new facility aims to reduce the need to refer high-risk pregnancies and critically ill newborns to Shillong, addressing high mortality rates in the district.
- •The hospital is equipped with an emergency unit, labour room, ICU, NICU, operation theatre complex, and an oxygen generation plant.
- •The Chief Minister also laid foundation stones for several key infrastructure projects, including road upgrades, a District Institute of Education and Training building, and a garden.
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Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma inaugurated a Rs 31.05-crore maternity and child health hospital in Nongstoin to improve specialist care for pregnant women and newborns in the West Khasi Hills district. The facility aims to reduce high maternal and infant mortality rates and minimize the need to refer critical cases to Shillong.
Chief Minister Sangma highlighted road projects worth Rs 498.31 crore converging on Nongstoin, including the Rs 383.91-crore upgrade of the Maweit-Nongjri section. Other projects include the Nongstoin-Maweit road costing Rs 63.01 crore, the Sohpian-Nongstoin road costing Rs 22.27 crore, and the Nongkhlaw-Byrki-Umdohlun road costing Rs 29.12 crore.
The hospital features an outpatient department, a laboratory complex, an emergency unit, a labour room, an intensive care unit, a neonatal intensive care unit, and an operation theatre complex. It also includes a pressure swing adsorption oxygen generation plant and a proposed District Early Intervention Centre to screen and treat childhood developmental delays.
