West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday virtually inaugurated a state of the art medical college and hospital in State’s Howrah district developed by the JIS Group, a Kolkata based educational conglomerate, in a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode.
The facility ‘JIS School of Medical Science, Research Centre’ is a result of a memorandum of understanding between Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of West Bengal and the JIS Group. The ‘JIS School of Medical Science, Research Centre’ is being envisaged as a 1200-bed hospital spread across 30 acres, and will involve an investment of Rs 1500 crore over a period of three years.