Delhi’s municipal hospitals will offer CT scans and MRI examinations at rates 20% below Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) prices under a public-private partnership project approved for three major facilities, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi said on Wednesday.
The services will be introduced at Hindu Rao Hospital, Swami Dayanand Hospital and Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis (RBTB). The project is intended to expand access to advanced diagnostic facilities for patients, especially those from economically weaker sections, according to Satya Sharma, chairperson of the MCD Standing Committee.
Under the approved PPP model, a private agency will establish and operate the diagnostic facilities during a 10-year concession period. The estimated expenditure for the project is around Rs 120 crore, with the contracted private agency responsible for the full amount.
About Rs 40 crore of the investment is expected to be used for installing machines and making other necessary arrangements. The remaining Rs 80 crore has been earmarked for operating expenses over the concession period, the report said.
The MCD will provide designated spaces inside the hospitals, while ownership of those locations will remain with the civic body. The arrangement is intended to allow the corporation to add CT and MRI capacity without transferring ownership of its hospital premises to the private operator.
Sharma said the civic body’s objective was to provide modern healthcare services at affordable rates to ordinary citizens, with particular attention to economically weaker patients. She said the expansion would allow patients to obtain essential diagnostic examinations at lower prices and strengthen the MCD’s public health infrastructure.
The rate structure will be linked to CGHS prices, with the CT and MRI examinations offered at a 20% discount to those rates. The source report does not specify the final rupee prices for individual examinations, the number of machines to be installed, or the timeline for the facilities to become operational.
The project’s next implementation steps will involve the private agency’s installation of equipment and the preparation of the spaces provided by the MCD at the three hospitals. The services are to operate under the approved 10-year concession framework.
