The Cochin Medical College (CMC) is finally ready to offer post-graduate courses.
With the Cooperative Academy of Professional Education (CAPE) approving Rs. 20 lakh, the college administration has initiated procedures for affiliation with the Kerala University of Health and Allied Sciences.
Ten courses
The medical college will be going in for 10 PG courses — five clinical and five preclinical subjects including General Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Microbiology, Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Physiology.
Karunya unit
Another initiative by the college for which the CAPE had granted approval is the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Kerala Medical Services Corporation Ltd. to open an outlet of Karunya that would supply low-cost medicines to patients. The MoU would be signed in about ten days, said CMC medical director Junaid Rahman. The medical college has also decided to limit the number of brands for the same composition of drugs, he said.
The medical college will re-start dialysis service soon, with two technicians joining the unit that has five machines. The machines had been lying idle for some time now owing to the lack of technicians.
Dr. Rahman said blood donation camps would be conducted in the coming days to revive the modern blood bank facility that has been lying unutilised.
Other initiatives that are on include digitalisation of X-ray units, revamp of the intensive care and coronary care units and expansion of the casualty department.
