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State Government | Kerala - India | PID: 181794
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Value: 25 Crore | Work on the Rs 25-crore imaging centre at Government Medical College (GMC), Ernakulam, which would be helpful to thousands of patients, has been started. The imaging centre will have facilities such as digital radiography and fluoroscopy machines, two colour-doppler ultrasound machines, colour doppler with illustrography, digital mammography unit, two digital radiography units, MRI scan unit, bone densitometry scan machine, packs and ecocardiography machine
The government had given administrative sanction for the project in March 2018. Infrastructure Kerala Ltd (Inkel) is the nodal agency for implementing the project.
"Inkel has started the work. Work on other projects like super-specialty block is also progressing at a fast pace," said GMC principal V K Sreekala
Work on escalator in the building, which houses Cathlab, has also been started. Though the construction of the building had been completed almost three months ago, the Cathlab facility remained non-functional due to lack of escalator
Public works department (PWD), which renovated a building at GMC for setting up the Cathlab, hadn't installed escalator in the four-storey building
GMC authorities said that PWD is expected to complete the work on escalator in three months
"We are ready to open the imaging centre once the escalator is installed. Doctors and employees who are to be deployed at the Cathlab had been imparted training from Government Medical College, Kottayam," said Dr Sreekala
Kerala Medical Services Corporation Ltd (KMSCL) had delivered the medical equipment required for starting the facility. Post of cardiologists has also been created by the government
PWD officials had cited a change in design as the reason for the delay in installing the escalator. Earlier, PWD had prepared a design, which was later changed. The change was to provide access to the escalator from another block. The total cost of renovating the building was Rs 4.4 crore
Meanwhile, the CT scan facility, which was started recently, has been affected with shortage of doctors
One of the associate professors, who was deployed in the Cathlab team, went to England for taking a fellowship examination. Services of two junior doctors who had rendered their services had been ceased as their contract expired
| Updated on: 20 - Oct - 2018
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