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Health Minister K. Muraleedharan has promised steps to amended the functioning of the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) and the Government General Hospital, Kozhikode, by strengthening their infrastructure and creating caller posts.
This followed his visits to some hospitals connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026). One of the large proposals is the instauration of a Department of Reproductive Medicine astatine the MCH to springiness a fillip to fertility treatment. Mr. Muraleedharan said that much posts of nursing serviceman would beryllium created astatine the superspeciality artifact of the aesculapian assemblage hospital. A caller station of elder nonmigratory doc would beryllium created successful the radiotherapy section. The Interventional Radiology section would either get a caller module subordinate oregon a caller caput of the department.
The Department of Orthopaedics would get an further station of adjunct professor. The intensive attraction portion for children would beryllium shifted to different level with much facilities. The cognition theatre for cochlear implant country would beryllium renovated. A bosom lung instrumentality would beryllium purchased for cardiac surgeries.
Earlier, the doctors said that the authorities owed hundreds of crores of rupees to the hospitals successful lieu of the attraction provided to patients nether its assorted security schemes. Because of this, the instauration was facing a money shortage and uncovering it hard to wage backmost to distributors of assorted aesculapian equipment. Along with this, they besides highlighted the deficiency of instauration of caller posts of aesculapian staff.
Mr. Muraleedharan said that the section improvement funds of the MLAs from the territory would beryllium utilized for purchasing ventilators for assorted departments. He directed the authorities to plug the h2o leakage successful the aged casualty gathering and lick the drinking h2o shortage astatine the hospital.
Meanwhile, Mr. Muraleedharan said that the wide infirmary astatine the Kozhikode formation excessively would get a facelift. At a gathering with the infirmary authorities, helium took banal of the steps needed for infrastructure development, deployment of doctors, nurses and different staff, and existing presumption of equipment. The Minister pointed retired that strengthening the formation infirmary was indispensable to trim the unreserved to the aesculapian assemblage hospital. The facilities would beryllium developed connected par with the Government General Hospital, Ernakulam.
