Dimapur, December 9 (MExN): Christian Institute of Health Sciences & Research (CIHSR) is to inaugurate a new private ward as well as dedicate its planned college of nursing – Nagaland’s first – with a foundation stone, on Saturday, December 10, 2011 from 12:30 pm.
The government of Nagaland has sanctioned Rs. 16 crores for the construction of the college of nursing at CIHSR, out of which Rs. 7,07,6000 have been received. The construction has commenced and is scheduled to be completed by September 2012, the director of the institute Dr. (Prof) Abraham Joseph said in a press release today.
“This is the first nursing college in the state of Nagaland. There are 2454 recognized institutions in India to conduct the General Nursing & Midwifery (GNM) course and 607 for the r Post Basic B. SC (PBBSc) course but Nagaland has only 2 GNM and 1 PBBSc course today,” Dr. (Prof) Abraham Joseph.
For the institute to be recognized for PBBSc, the director said, it was necessary to have adequate number of patients in various departments. “We now have a neurosurgeon specializing in care of head injury from Christian Medical College, Vellore and a Hepatobiliary Surgeon from Christian Medical College, Ludhiana. To complement the Gastroenterology unit which has been there from the beginning, other specialties include General Medicine, General Surgery, Pulmonology, ENT, Dental, Dermatology/Cosmetology, Pediatrics, Gynecology and Community Health,” he said.
Currently the college has been listed in the Indian Nursing Council’s list of recognized institutions for PBBSc and GNM courses and is approved for 20 seats in the PBBSc and 30 in the GNM program. CIHSR plans to start the B. Sc Nursing course in 2014 and the M.Sc Nursing course in 2015, the institute said.
The college is affiliated to the Nagaland University and the Assam Nurses’ Midwives’ and Health Visitors’ Council to conduct these courses.
The PBBSc course is already functioning from October 2011. The GNM) course will commence in January 2012, it was informed.
The planned college of nursing will have 8 classrooms with a capacity to hold 50 students, a library and a computer laboratory. Apart from the offices of the principal and the vice principal, there will be 5 laboratories – for nutrition, pre-clinical sciences, community health nursing, maternity and child health nursing and nursing Foundation as required by the Indian Nursing Council.
“The staff nursing hostel will be constructed as soon as the balance funds are received. We are looking forward to receiving the funds for the Regional Institute of Paramedical Sciences into which is budgeted the students’ hostel,” the director said.
Also, the private ward is a 4-storied building facing the Chathe. Built at the cost of Rs. 9 Crores, the building has 87 rooms including 6 VIP suites on the ground floor. 48 rooms are air conditioned and 39 are non-air conditioned rooms, the director informed. The ward also has its own canteen facility.
According to the institute, the “income from this ward” will help ‘subsidize the treatment of the poor and marginalized and outreach work’ in Burma Camp, Dhansiripar, and Niuland in Dimapur.
