MKCG Medical College Hospital to get a facelift.

The Hindu,Berhampur,

At last plans are on to transform the MKCG Medical College Hospital in Berhampur City to a referral hospital in real sense.The authorities of the medical college have sent a project report worth Rs. 75.7 crores to the Director of Medical Education and Training (DMET), Orissa for the developmental work.Although it happened to be the only referral hospital in south Orissa also catering to the areas of bordering Andhra Pradesh, yet lack of modern infrastructure always bogged down the institution. As a result of which the experts posted at the medical college were compelled to refer the patients reaching the medical college hospital to either SCB Medical College hospital or to any private hospital.

Upgradation

According to principal of the medical college J.P. Behera, the proposal of requirement for upgradation of standard of services was sent to the DMET so that it could be included under the plans of the 13th Financial Commission. Improvement of infrastructure includes renovation and construction of buildings of wards, laboratories and other sections of the medical college.The medical college is yet to have a boundary wall around its campus.As per the plans it would have a mini-indoor stadium, modern library and new hostels for students. The total proposed cost of building and renovation work would be Rs. 47.70 crores.

Around Rs. 28 crores is planned to be spent on acquiring modern instruments and equipments for different departments of the institution, said Mr Ranjan Sharma, the administrative officer of the medical college. A special burns unit would be established at a cost of Rs. 3 crores.Proposed establishment of cardiac catheterisation laboratory and a slice tomography machine in the cardiology department would cost around Rs. 13 crores. Without these machines the cardiology department of the medical college is facing serious handicap.An MRI machine of Rs. 4 crores has also been proposed.
The existing more than a decade old Gama camera in the nuclear medicine department would be replaced with a modern ‘spect-camera’. Similarly the replacement of radioactive source of the nine-year-old Cobalt 60 machine whose ‘half life’ period has already been completed would need Rs. 2 crores. The medical college hospital is yet to have an oxygen plant of its own for the smooth management of ICU, Operation Theatres and wards. This plant would be established at a cost of one crore rupees.