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New aesculapian facilities worthy ₹24 crore volition soon beryllium inaugurated successful the coming months astatine Kanniyakumari Government Medical College and Hospital (KKGMCH) successful Asaripallam.
This caller infrastructure astatine the hospital, includes six floored captious attraction portion building, constructed astatine a outgo of ₹20 crore and a radiation installation for crab patients.
An authoritative from the KKGMCH medication said that the captious attraction portion has been planned successful a mode that allows exigency patients to beryllium treated with each the facilities including laboratory, X-Ray and scanning facilities nether 1 roof.
“The six-floor caller installation volition location an Intensive Care Unit, 2 cognition theatres, station operative attraction units and different facilities needed astatine the captious attraction unit,” helium added.
The radiation therapy installation for crab patients, being developed astatine a outgo of ₹4 crore volition besides beryllium launched soon astatine the hospital. This is 1 of the astir anticipated aesculapian facilities that radical of Kanniyakumari territory person demanded for a agelong time, arsenic the territory has a important fig of crab diagnosed patients.
Currently, galore crab patients question to backstage hospitals oregon to the Regional Cancer Centre successful Thiruvananthapuram. Although KKGMCH has a surgical and aesculapian oncology departments, patients requiring radiation therapy are being referred to Regional Cancer Centre (RMC) successful Tirunelveli.
KKMCH Dean Leo David said that establishing a caller radiation installation would beryllium highly beneficial for the crab patients successful Kanniyakumari district.
He added, “Every month, astir 50 crab patients acquisition surgeries astatine the infirmary and they are present referred to RMC, Tirunelveli for radiation treatment. The motorboat of a akin radiation installation present volition beryllium greatly beneficial for crab patients visiting the hospital.”
He besides mentioned that 2 caller doctors person been deployed to enactment the radiation unit.
“Machines person already been installed done the Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services (DMS) and installation of aesculapian isotopes is awaited, which is to beryllium carried retired by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,” Mr. David said.
