Ahmedabad, September 11: CHIEF Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to people a special ward and a blood bank at Civil Hospital on Tuesday. Ward number-7 and the blood bank have been set up in private public partnership. The ward has been named as Mineral Ward and Tribal Ward.

The fully air-conditioned Ward C-7 (Mineral Ward and Tribal Ward), is equipped with three ventilators, vital sign monitors, sofa-cum-bed and others will make this ward the best among all private and government hospitals, claim officials. The blood bank inaugurated at the Civil Hospital has been built at a cost of Rs 2.8 crore with help from European Commission (Rs 1.6 crore) and the State Government (Rs1.2 crore).

The blood bank is to be developed as training centre in blood transfusion. Also, there will be computerised blood test for AIDS, hepatitis and malaria at the blood bank. Modi, dedicated the ward and the blood bank to the people.

It is to be noted that other such wards which were inaugurated with great fanfare some years ago at this hospital are in a shambles with no one to bother about them.

For example, the neuro ICU ward, where the Akshardham fame commando Surjan Singh Bhandari was given treatment for about a year, has its air-conditioning and electric fittings going haywire. Not only that, some time ago, electric wires fell on a patient but he escaped unhurt. The G-6 ward is also facing similar predicament, say sources.

Sources say that there is only one X-Ray machine and another portable X-Ray machine that are in working order at the hospital. They also say that even life-saving drugs are generally not available to patients.