COVER STORY Strong Institutional mechanism for monitoring clinical and service quality shall be executed where all the hospitals would be required to ensure entry level NABH(National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare providers) accreditation within first 2 years and final accreditation with 4 years of operation. This will synergize well with the NHPS as quality services will be developed across the states. A monitoring agency and independent engineer shall be selected to monitor timely completion of activities at each stage of on ground project implementation and ensure quality parameters are adequately met. To ensure risk reduction and better control over implementation and monitoring the entire project shall be rolled out in 3 phases with development of 6-8 hospital in each phase. Other Impacts of the project Covers 55% of the population and districts with 56% of bed gap A total addition of around 3000 beds shall be implemented in this project. Covers all 7 optimum location districts maximizing access and minimize travel time to higher centres: Angul, Mayurbhanj, Koraput, Kalahandi, Bolangir, Kandhamal, Keonjhar A good mix of high viability and low viability regions The project shall generate over 10000 employment opportunities to skilled personnel that include approx. 1500 clinicians, 3500 nurses, 2000 paramedics and around 3000 support staff. In addition to this during construction project will generate over 2000 employments for construction workers for a period of 4-5 years Who are the stakeholders in this project? The key stakeholders of the project are Government of Odisha and the Private healthcare partners (Concessionaire)who would partner in to operate the healthcare facilities. Apart from them, other stakeholders primarily would be the builders, financial institutions, health insurance providers and medical equipment manufacturers.
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What is the timeline of completion of this project? GoO has planned to roll-out the project in 3 phases. In the First phase 8 districts have been selected. The GoO Phase 1 of the project is expected to be bid out in the next 2-3 months. What will be the total spend on this project and how is this project funded? The Government funding for the project will be over 2000 Crore in form of fixed and variable gap funding. What has been the progress so far? Under Phase 1 of the project Medica Synergie undertook a detailed Due diligence& feasibility study across all the 30 districts of Odisha to understand the demand and supply gap of healthcare infrastructure and services followed with development of due diligence reports for each district and overall state. Under Phase 2 Detailed transaction structure including business modelling, identification of land parcels for the project, project cost estimations and PPP modelling was worked out. Under Phase 3, the Public announcementof the project details was expressed in public portals in September followed by Pre-bid meeting at Bhubaneswar. In view of promotional activities of the project, road shows were conducted at Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Delhi and Hyderabad followed by Odisha’s flagship Biennial Global Investor’s meet under the Make in Odisha Conclave 2018 atBhubaneswar. In this Global Investor’s meet presentation on the project background, technical and financial particulars and PPP incentives were briefed to prospective partners by Medica other support included developing bid documents such as RFP, concession agreement, applicable technical schedules, developing and making presentations to ECI (Empowered committee on infrastructure), Govt of Odisha & prospective investors, development of ToR for monitoring agency & independent engineer and other technical subject expertise as deemed necessary. In the upcoming activities bid evaluation and selection and contract signing shall be executed.
