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Time-bound development of Kottayam medical college promised

Staff Reporter

Chandy opens Children's Cancer Care Centre

KOTTAYAM: The various development programmes envisaged for the Medical College Hospital here will be implemented in a time-bound manner, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said.

Commissioning the State's first Children's Cancer Care Centre here on Saturday, Mr. Chandy said the advanced clinical lab, being constructed at a cost of Rs.1.5 crores, would be completed in the next two weeks. With the commissioning of the advanced clinical lab, various blood tests can be conducted there. The work on the pay ward was progressing fast and a CT Scan unit will start functioning under the auspices of the Kerala Health Research Welfare Society, he said.

Vacant posts

Health Minister K.K. Ramachandran said the posts lying vacant, especially of the nursing staff, would be filled soon. The Government was committed to making Kottayam Government Medical College a model institution and to elevating the Institute of Child Health to the status of a super-specialty hospital, he added.

The Rs.50-lakh Children's Cancer Care Centre has been built with the participation of Cochin Cements Limited and Hindustan Newsprint Limited.

Thomas Chanzhikkadan, MLA, district panchayat member Royce Chirayil, Medical College Principal N. Sudaya Kumar, Institute of Child Health director M.M. Sosamma, among others, spoke on the occasion.

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