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Auditorium and lecture hall inaugurated at KMC

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Infrastructure scheme for medical colleges

DECKED UP: The auditorium at the Government Kilpauk Medical College which was declared open by Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday evening. — Photo: V.Ganesan

CHENNAI : The auditorium and lecture hall at the Government Kilpauk Medical College here was inaugurated by Minister for Local Administration and Rural Development, M. K. Stalin, on Thursday.

The buildings that were constructed at a cost of Rs. 2.03 crore had been languishing unused for several months because of a delayed inaugural ceremony.

V.K. Subburaj, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Health and Family Welfare Department, said that the modalities for implementation of the Rs.2500-crore scheme to provide modernised infrastructure to medical colleges with hospitals in the State were being worked out. Among the grants made recently to medical colleges, he listed Rs.17 crore granted to Tuticorin, Rs.24 crore to Thanjavur and Rs.5 crore to Stanley Medical College in Chennai. The project of computerising and providing upgraded infrastructure to the district and taluk hospitals at a cost of Rs. 480 crore was expected to be completed in a year, he said.

K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, urged the students to spend two or three years in a rural posting upon completion of their studies. He noted that 1,500 doctors have been regularised as announced earlier and granted a salary enhanced by Rs.10,000. Some 2,600 nurses have also had their services regularised and given a salary hike of Rs.1000. Students Deepalakshmi and Sundararajan had earlier requested that they be given hostel facility, extensions to the outpatient ward, canteen and library and more buildings for the specialty branches of medicine.

M. Subramanian, Mayor, said that the Communicable Diseases Hospital in Tondiarpet had been granted Rs.1.48 crore by Mr. Stalin for upgradation of infrastructure.

Mr. Stalin recalled that his friends abroad took pride in the high number of doctors from Tamil Nadu and Kerala working in the West and urged students to reverse the trend. He later felicitated the engineers from the Public Works Department who had been involved in the construction of the halls.

The newly inaugurated auditorium at the Kilpauk Medical College has a seating capacity of 750.

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