Union Minister Ravneet Singh Opens New Railway Health Centre in Ludhiana
₹7.5 crore state-of-the-art medical centre to serve railway employees and their families
Ludhiana : Union Minister of State for Railways and Food Processing Industries, S. Ravneet Singh, inaugurated a newly built railway healthcare facility in Ludhiana on Saturday. Constructed at a cost of ₹7.5 crore, the 1,800 square metre modern medical centre is equipped to provide comprehensive healthcare services to railway employees and their families.
The G+1 facility includes six OPDs, a four bedded ward, emergency services, sterilisation and dressing rooms, a pharmacy, passenger and stretcher lifts, and three waiting lobbies with stainless steel seating. Additional features include a conference room, gender-segregated staff toilets, VRV air conditioning, a well furnished double height lobby, dedicated parking for ambulances and vehicles, landscaped green areas, a PME dark room, an X-ray unit with a dark room, laboratory facilities, and a medical record section.
Highlighting the broader healthcare infrastructure, Ravneet Singh noted that the Firozpur Division currently operates one divisional hospital at Firozpur, one sub-divisional hospital in Amritsar, and six health units, supported by 34 doctors and 69 beds. The Firozpur hospital offers multi-specialty care in medicine, surgery, gynecology, orthopedics, pathology, anesthesia, and dentistry, with facilities such as a physiotherapy unit, modular OT, and computerized radiography.
Additionally, a 50-bed hospital in Amritsar and health units across Ludhiana, Jalandhar City, Jalandhar Cantt, and Kapurthala further strengthen the network. To ensure emergency care, 51 private hospitals and 16 diagnostic centres have been empanelled for railway beneficiaries.
