A 78-year-old public hospital in Indore just got a significant diagnostic upgrade. Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav on Sunday, 18 October 2026, inaugurated a PET-CT Scan Centre and a Tele Command Centre at the Government Mahatma Gandhi Smriti Medical College and M.Y. Hospital in Indore — and then walked the wards himself, inspecting the CT scan machines and speaking directly with patients who had come in for diagnostics.

What opened at M.Y. Hospital — and why it matters

M.Y. Hospital is the state's largest government tertiary-care teaching facility, serving patients from across Madhya Pradesh and neighbouring states. A PET-CT scanner — positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography — is among the most precise tools available for detecting and staging cancer, as well as monitoring cardiac and neurological conditions. Until now, government hospital patients in the region faced long referral chains or steep private-sector costs to access such imaging. The inauguration closes that gap at one of the state's most visited public hospitals.

The accompanying Tele Command Centre adds a second, forward-looking dimension: it enables remote monitoring of diagnostic equipment and, potentially, remote specialist consultations — a model that could extend M.Y. Hospital's expertise to district and community health centres across the state without requiring physical transfers of patients or personnel.

CM Yadav walks the floor, talks to patients

The visit was not a ribbon-cutting and exit. Dr. Yadav examined the CT scan machines in person and held conversations with patients who were at the facility for diagnostic procedures — an uncommon detail that the Chief Minister's Office specifically highlighted in its post. The gesture underlines the political messaging around the inauguration: that high-end diagnostics in Madhya Pradesh are now a public entitlement, not a private privilege.

MP's incremental push to bring PET-CT to government hospitals

Madhya Pradesh has, over several years, steadily added high-end imaging infrastructure — CT, MRI, and now PET-CT — to its government medical colleges. The addition at Mahatma Gandhi Smriti Medical College, established in 1948 and among the state's oldest public medical institutions, reflects that pattern accelerating. The Tele Command Centre model, if scaled, could become the blueprint for how the state links its network of district hospitals to specialist diagnostic hubs without the capital cost of equipping every facility individually. The next question: whether similar PET-CT installations at other state medical colleges follow.