Ghantua PHC

About Us

The hospital, set up in 1991, was initially operating from a school. In 2000, one and a half acres was identified for it and the hospital building was built. It is three kilometres from Baliapal block.The one on the left side of the main entrance of the hospital is the cynosure of all eyes. It has around 50 varieties of flower plants with a verdant grass carpet and a stream in the middle. Later an OPD, AAYUSH OPD, dressing room, store, laboratory, immunisation room, rainwater harvesting point, grey water recycling point and staff quarters were added.The PHC’s pharmacist is the man who gave the hospital a pleasant look, considered good for both the body and mind. Ratindra Narayan Parida’s profession is healthcare, but a desire to keep the hospital’s premises clean and green has energised him long before ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ was launched. Ratindra says greenery can sooth human minds. Patients get well faster if the hospital’s surroundings are clean and green. Researchers have confirmed the role of music, colour and greenery in healing minds and bodies.The medicinal park coming up on the hospital’s premises houses a good variety of plants and shrubs like ‘Guduchi’, ‘Sada Bihari’, ‘Basanga’, ‘Amarpoi’, ‘Brahmi’, ‘Pippali’, Black Pepper, ‘Bhrungaraj’, ‘Hemsa Giri’, ‘Chireita’, ‘Patal Garuda’, ‘Bacha’, ‘Gandhali’, ‘Saparkechu’ and ‘Palua Gandhali’. There is an orchard to the left of the hospital and it has mango, guava, orange, litchi, star fruit and grape vines.