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MRI facility for four medical college hospitals

TIRUNELVELI: The Government Medical College Hospitals at Thanjavur, Coimbatore, Vellore and Stanley Medical College Hospital, Chennai, will soon get Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems, the Minister for Public Health, K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran, has announced.

The Minister was here on Sunday to inaugurate the MRI and Colour Doppler Scan facilities at the Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital.

MRI is a non-invasive, usually painless medical test that helps physicians diagnose and treat pathological or other physiological alterations of living tissues. It produces detailed pictures of organs, soft tissues, bone and virtually all other internal body structures. The images can then be examined on a computer monitor or printed. Detailed MR images allow physicians to evaluate parts of the body and certain diseases that may not be assessed adequately with other imaging methods such as x-ray, ultrasound or computed tomography (CT).

He said that the Government, with the objective of ensuring excellent healthcare facilities to the poor, had embarked upon an ambitious project of equipping the Government medical college hospitals and Government hospitals with state-of-the-art equipments, normally available with corporate hospitals.

After granting permission for the installation of the next generation 64-slice computed tomography equipment that allows visualisation of the heart and entire coronary tree within one breath with unparalleled resolution, at Madras Medical College Hospital, Chennai, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi ordered the setting up of a similar equipment at Government Rajaji Medical College Hospital, Madurai for the benefit of people from southern districts, Mr. Ramachandran said.

The Minister noted that the Government was filling up the existing vacancies of doctors in the Government hospitals, medical college hospitals, 30-bed hospitals and primary health centres in rural areas while all these hospitals had adequate number of nurses.

The Director of Medical Education, Thiyagavalli Kirubhakaran, said new hostel buildings would be constructed at Government medical colleges in Thanjavur, Tiruchi, Coimbatore, Vellore, Tirunelveli and Stanley Medical College, Chennai at a cost of Rs.21 crore, while Rs.5 crore would be spent for putting up an exclusive operation theatre building at TVMCH.

The Speaker, R. Avudaiyappan, the Minister for Environment and Sports, T.P.M. Maideen Khan, the Collector, G. Prakash, the MLAs M. Appavu, P. Veldurai, V. Karuppasamy Pandian and N. Maalairaja, and the Mayor, A.L. Subramanian, spoke.

The TVMCH has got Siemens Magnetom Symphony MRI system, costing about Rs.4.21 crore and an additional Rs.63.70 lakh has been spent for modifying the building in which the imported equipment has been installed.

For imaging of brain, cervical lumbar, abdomen, MR Angio, pelvis, MRCP and any large part, Rs.3,500 would be charged and Rs. 2,500 would be collected for the imaging of knee, hip joint, shoulder, wrist, elbow, MR mylogram, small area including limited sequence of spine. For contrast, Rs. 1,500 would be collected in addition to the regular charges.

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