Postgraduate students in Government Medical College, Ernakulam, are facing difficulties for want of infrastructure and other essential facilities to complete their education.
The 16-year old medical college continues to exist without some specialties and super-specialities.
Even for undergraduate students, examinations in certain subjects are held in other institutions for lack of facilities and staff here.
The medical college, which was taken over by the government in 2013, has been stagnating because of bureaucratic apathy in the integration process and lack of budgetary support over the last couple of years.
Patient care
Meanwhile, the number of patients visiting the medical college hospital has gone up tremendously. Though the one-day OP for cardiology allows only 40 patients, there would be over a hundred a day if there was a proper department, the sources said.
Special attention of the government is required to develop facilities here for the poor to access good tertiary medical care.
The college, owned by the govt., has been stagnating owing lack of budgetary support
