India, Sept. 30 -- Plans are afoot to set up a 400-bed super specialty (200 beds) and women's hospital (200 beds) in the Aundh District Hospital (ADH) premises, with the final proposal recently submitted by the public health department to the state government for approval, officials said.

According to officials, the ADH premises have around 35 acres of government land. On the same campus, there are six old and unsafe residential buildings spread across 6,282.36 square metres. At the centre of the unsafe buildings is an open space measuring around 1,858.06 square metres. The cleared land and open space together measuring around 8,140.42 square metres; will be used for constructing the new hospital building, as per the proposal.

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