IRT Perundurai Medical College has been provided with equipment worth Rs. 1.05 crore.
The equipment: Adult Ventilator (Rs. 7.97 lakh), Neonatal Ventilator (Rs. 9.97 lakh), Ultra Sonogram with Doppler (Rs. 12 lakh), six X-Ray machines (Rs. 43 lakh), Blood Component Separation Unit (Rs. 29.8 lakh), ardio Tocograph (Rs. 1 lakh) and Electrolyte Analyser (Rs. 1.4 lakh) were purchased out of the Parliamentary Development Fund and funding by private entities based in Erode and Coimbatore districts.
Amount sanctioned
Commissioning the equipment at the hospital recently, Minister for Industries and Transport P. Thangamani said the State Government has sanctioned Rs. 3.16 crore for providing such facilities in the hospital.
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has sanctioned Rs. 2 crore for construction of an auditorium for the college, and the work was in progress, the Minister informed, adding that private sponsors will be roped in for modernising the equipment in the Medical College Hospital where 21 out of 60 MBBS seats are reserved for wards of Transport Corporation employees.
Districts
The hospital was serving economically backward patients in Erode and Tirupur districts, Environment Minister Thoppu N.D. Venkatachalam, said.
He added that the campus was also one of the options for locating the Centrally-funded All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
District Collector S. Prabakar, Lok Sabha MPs S. Selvakumara Chinnaiyan and V. Sathyabama, MLA N.S.N. Nataraj, Hospital Dean M. Rajendran, and other dignitaries took part.
