Eastern India to get a world class healthcare institute ‘SUMUM’ today

Bhubaneswar, Feb 29: Adding a new chapter to the healthcare facility in the state, SUMUM, a world class health initiative, will be thrown open to the public today. The new facility, one of the largest in eastern India, will be thrown open to the public on Saturday (February 29, 2020) in the presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Union minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah and Union minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan. Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA), a name to reckon with in the sphere of professional education and healthcare in eastern India, is all set to unveil its newest healthcare initiative—SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM) in the capital city. Built on the foundation of the belief that world class healthcare should be accessible to all Indians and with a motto of ‘Transforming Lives’, SUMUM will provide healthcare service at par world class hospital standards with healthcare infrastructure of international standard. Spread across ten acres, the nine storied hospital will offer next-generation treatment in patient-focused and technology enhanced settings to the people of the region under one roof. SOA, which runs a Deemed to be University with nine degree granting institutes and a student strength of more than 10,000, is well known for the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital—its faculty of medical sciences.  Already established as one of the most popular healthcare destinations in the region, it boasts of state-of-the-art advanced diagnostic, surgical and life saving equipment and offers super-specialty consultation. IMS and SUM Hospital is also the first in Odisha to have successfully conducted Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT).