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CT scan machine inaugurated

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Technical edge: Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy and Law Minister M. Vijayakumar watching the functioning of the new CT scan machine at the medical college hospital in the city on Tuesday.

Thiruvananthapuram: The government will ensure that there is no red tape for government hospitals to acquire modern medical equipment, Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy has said.

Inaugurating the new CT scan machine at the Government Medical College Hospital here on Tuesday, Ms. Sreemathy said that government hospitals were catching up with the private sector in acquiring new technology and modern diagnostic machines. Many such hospitals, including the MCH, now had sophisticated intensive care facilities.

Ms. Sreemathy said that once the Rs.120-crore development project under the Prime Minister’s Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) was completed, the Thiruvananthapuram MCH would be on par with many leading medical institutions in the country. Law Minister M. Vijayakumar presided over the meeting.

The new CT scan machine, imported at a cost of Rs.1.25 crore, is a high-end machine with four-slice scan facility, while the old machine had been a single slice one. The advantages of the new machine are its speed and high-resolution pictures.

The machine was acquired using funds from the hospital development society after the old one, which was over 12 years old, went into disuse. It took over four months for the tender purchase to be completed and the machine was finally imported and installed.

During the past four months, the poor patients coming to MCH had to depend on private scan centres in the locality where they had to pay hefty fees and this had evoked a lot of protest.

The MCH will be acquiring another CT scan machine as well as its first MRI scan machine when the equipment purchase under PMSSY is through.

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