The Health and Family Welfare Department has sanctioned ₹ 3.9 crore to upgrade the Ophthalmology Department at the Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital.
The Director of Medical Education has sent a report to the department stating that the existing ground floor of the building is having an out-patient department, special clinic ward for infected cases and an operation theatre.
The out-patient department, the pre-operative wards, and main operation theatre are closely situated on the ground floor and there is possibility of increasing the risk of sepsis in operation theatre.
To maintain aseptic standards in the operation theatre, it should be constructed in the second floor along with post-operative ward, the DME said.
A team from the Medical Council of India (MCI) inspected the ophthalmology block of the hospital recently and justified the execution of the above project and the Dean of the hospital, had forwarded the report of the MCI team inspection.
The Chief Engineer (buildings) of the Public Works Department (PWD), Tiruchi region, has prepared the project cost and the Director of Medical Education has already counter signed the same.
The government following this has accorded administrative and financial sanction for the project, hospital sources here said.
