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Pune district to get 100-bed critical care hospital next month
Pune district will receive Maharashtra’s first dedicated 100-bed critical care hospital on the Aundh District Hospital campus next month. Funded by the Union Health Ministry and developed under PM-ABHIM, the facility will offer ICU, HDU, isolation wards, and rapid diagnostics, with staffing aligned to IPHS.
Why It Matters
The new facility is intended to strengthen emergency response and outbreak management at the district level, building on lessons from the Covid pandemic.
Timeline
1 Event
100-bed Critical Care Hospital to come up on Aundh District Hospital campus
May 10, 2026
The Critical Care Hospital (CCH) will be built on the Aundh District Hospital campus as a ground-plus-two-storey facility designed to handle serious medical emergencies, critical illnesses, and outbreak situations. It will comprise 20 ICU beds (including four paediatric), 20 HDU beds (four paediatric), a 30-bed isolation ward, 12 isolation rooms for infectious disease management, two operation theatres, two labour-delivery-recovery units, and a point-of-care diagnostic laboratory. The project is funded by the Union Health Ministry and developed under the Centre’s PM-ABHIM. Staffing will follow Indian Public Health Standards with specialist doctors deployed round the clock in ICUs, emergency services, operating theatres, and labour rooms.