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Hospital plan: meet on Monday

KOZHIKODE: Details of a master plan outlined for development of the Beach (General) Hospital here will be chalked out at a meeting on Monday.

Kukku Kuruvilla, hospital superintendent in-charge, says the improvements planned during the first phase focus on immediate and urgent needs, such as installing basic equipment and undertaking the much-needed repairs.

A facelift at Rs. 1.75 crore, under the National Rural Health Mission and tsunami rehabilitation fund, is expected to make the hospital a major health-care centre in the district headquarters.

The announcement was made at a meeting presided by Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy here on October 29.

A sum of Rs. 1 crore will be made available during this financial year and the remaining the next year. Constructing a building to house a state-of-the-art casualty wing, outpatient block and trauma-care unit is going to help in the long term.

Dr. Kuruvilla says rewiring of the existing building is necessary when new equipment are installed.

Replacement of windows and doors and fixing of grills will also be carried out. A. Baburaj, District Programme Manager of the mission, says civil engineering works will be undertaken by Hindustan Prefab Ltd., a Union government enterprise, representatives of which will attend Monday’s meeting.

The meeting will discuss appointment of additional staff, including a physician and nurses.

Efforts are on to find sponsors to provide a facelift to 21 wards that cater to 16 medical departments.

The work will be taken up as a whole. A number of voluntary agencies are keen to finance it, as had been the case at the Government Medical College here, sources said. The equipment to be installed immediately are an echocardiogram machine and a defibrillator.

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