Gujarat announces over Rs 500 crore in healthcare projects with 255 new facilities and a 521-bed neuroscience institute at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital

Key facts

• Healthcare projects worth over Rs 500 crore were announced in Gujarat, with Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel inaugurating 255 new medical facilities and laying foundation stones for 45 more projects.
• The newly completed facilities cost Rs 185 crore and the foundation-laid projects an estimated Rs 347 crore, taking the combined investment to Rs 532 crore.
• The biggest project is a Rs 223-crore Institute of Neuroscience and Research Centre on the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital campus, with a built-up area of 58,831 square metres, 521 beds and 13 operation theatres.
• The neuroscience institute's 521 beds include 288 general ward, 160 ICU, 57 special and semi-special and 16 triage beds, and it will treat strokes, brain tumours and complex brain and spinal cord disorders.
• The state plans new Medicities at Vasai and Kamrej on the Ahmedabad model with an estimated investment of around Rs 3,000 crore, cardiology and neurology expansion in Gandhinagar and Surat, and a proposed Spine Hospital within the Ahmedabad Medicity complex.
• Gujarat's medical colleges increased from eight in 2001-02 to 43 in 2025-26, while MBBS seats rose from 1,375 to 7,525 in the same period.
• Under Ayushman Bharat, eligible beneficiaries in Gujarat can receive free treatment of up to Rs 10 lakh, and more than 2.87 crore people in the state have been issued Ayushman cards.
• More than 1,400 ambulances operate round the clock under the 108 Emergency Service in Gujarat, and the state's hospitals ranked first in the country in organ donation.