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PMSSY gets under way at MCH

Blueprint: A sketch of the proposed super-specialty project at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital.

Thiruvananthapuram: The much-awaited development project of Thiruvananthapuram Medical College – the Rs. 100-crore Pradhan Manthri’s Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) – will get under way with the construction of a new super-specialty block, which will house six medical and surgical specialties.

Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan will lay the foundation stone for the new block on November 24. Union Health Minister, Anbumani Ramadoss is expected to participate in the function.

The PMSSY project, an initiative launched by the Centre to upgrade 13 Medical Colleges in the country, is the first major development plan to have come the way of MCH after its inception.

Under the project, apart from the super-specialty block, a postgraduate block for nursing and another one for medical laboratory technology will be constructed at a total cost of Rs.44.6 crore. The MCH is also purchasing new equipment, including MRI scan machines, heart-lung machine and other vital life-support machinery worth Rs.45 crore.

The project, being implemented by the hospital services division of Hindustan Latex Limited, is expected to be completed by May 2009.

The proposed SS block, with a total area of over 15,000 sq.m., will have 253 beds, eight operation theatres and six intensive care units. Six super-specialities will be accommodated in this block, apart from a renal transplant unit and a haemodialysis unit.

A Kochi-based construction firm has been awarded the tender by HLL to construct the SS block, at an estimated Rs.38 crore and this has been approved by the Centre. The house surgeons’ quarters on the medical college campus has been demolished to make way for the SS block.

The formalities involved in the equipment purchase are going on now. The Centre has approved a list of 92 equipment submitted by the MCH. The State’s share in the project is Rs.20 crore, which is being utilised to construct a new outpatients’ block. Work on the building is also progressing fast.

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