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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Acute space crunch and shortage of staff emerged as the major issues affecting patient care at Medical College Hospital (MCH), at a meeting of department heads convened by the Health Minister, K.K. Ramachandran, here on Tuesday.
Steps to fill vacancies
The Minister, however, ruled out any prospects of additional staff creation. Steps would be taken to fill existing vacancies in MCH, he said. The meeting was called by the Minister to assess the requirements of various departments at MCH. Mr. Ramachandran said two major renovation schemes were being planned for all medical colleges in the State. The two urban medical colleges of Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode would be provided Rs. 50 crores each through HUDCO, while Rs. 30 crores each was being sought for the other medical colleges from NABARD. He also detailed the additional facilities that had been planned for the MCH. The facilities are an MRI scan facility, tele-medicine network, waste disposal scheme, renovation of cardio thoracic wing and a rainwater-harvesting scheme. The amount that the hospital development society could utilise towards meeting the establishment costs of MCH had been raised from 35 per cent to 50 per cent, he said. The shortage of anaesthesiologists was pointed out to be a major problem at MCH. The department had to cater to the requirements of the SAT Hospital and the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology also and the number of doctors was hardly adequate when several surgeries were being performed on a single day.
Complaints galore
Shortage of beds was hampering the functioning of the departments like General Medicine, Orthopaedics and General Surgery, which functioned round-the-clock. More facilities should be provided to these departments, which handled a huge volume of patients daily, doctors said. They also demanded that steps be taken to open the critical care unit of General SurgeryThough a burns unit was created in 1996, till now it had not been allotted any space. Even those with severe burns had to be accommodated along side the general surgery ward, which increased the risk of infection.
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