'Chances of hospital infection less for Ernakulam Govt Medical College'

October 22, 2014 10:01 am | Updated May 23, 2016 04:35 pm IST - KOCHI:

Many poor patients requiring surgery are now being referred to other hospitals, senior faculty members at Ernakulam Medical College say.  File Photo

Many poor patients requiring surgery are now being referred to other hospitals, senior faculty members at Ernakulam Medical College say. File Photo

The team from Thiruvananthapuram that had visited the Government Medical College, Ernakulam, has told the Director, Medical Education, that the chances of hospital-acquired infection are less, but nevertheless, has asked the hospital infection control committee to maintain all precautions to have effective control measures in place.

A recommendation of the team is that the new born nursery be adjacent to the Operation Theatre. The results of swabs collected from likely places of infection were yet to come in, DME, Dr. V. Geetha, told The Hindu .

The team from Kottayam Medical College that had conducted an inspection earlier was yet to submit a report, she said. However, the Microbiology department of the medical college here had submitted a negative result of the swab tests they had conducted earlier.

Some of the senior faculty members told The Hindu that many poor patients requiring surgery were now being referred to other hospitals because the operation theatre had been closed for more than two weeks now. The medical college, which is only among the three major hospitals that have a level-3 neo-natal care, was being subjected to rumours and false stories about infection, claimed a senior teacher.

The Cochin Medical College Teachers’ Association (faculty members of the Government Medical College, Ernakulam) on Tuesday gave a memorandum to Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar stating that a group was spreading fabricated news regarding the medical college that was turning poor patients away from free treatment available in the medical college. The association president, Dr. Jacob Baby, said they had asked the Health Minister to come out with a clear cut message on the status of infection control in the medical college.

Meanwhile, senior officials in the college told The Hindu that the Finance department had in principle agreed to create 832 posts in the medical college after the secretary-level meetings between the Finance and Health departments. The same has to be ratified by the Cabinet to take the staff integration to the next level.

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