The new Multispeciality Block (MSB) at the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), with over 100 ICU beds with ventilator facility, will be commissioned soon.
Health Minister K. K. Shylaja, at a high-level meeting of officials and MCH administrators here on Friday, said that the equipment would be installed first and that the building would be commissioned after the trial run. Hospital employees would be re-deployed and new posts created wherever necessary.
Ms. Shylaja directed that steps be taken to open the new emergency wing and trauma care facility at MCH without delay.
The MSB building had been completed two years ago and equipment was purchased after the government sanctioned ₹6 crore. Ms. Shylaja asked the officials to do the needful so that the technical issues in getting electricity, water connections and the building number can be resolved at the earliest.
MSB will house the intensive care units of Surgery, Neuro Surgery, Cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology departments as well as a multidisciplinary ICU.
Parking area, electrical station, pumping room, maintenance room and a common dining hall for visitors and patients’ families occupies level 2 underground. A modern mortuary with 48 freezers and three post mortem tables, an inquest room for police and a classroom takes up level 1 underground.
The ground floor houses Geriatrics Department, the first such speciality to be begun in any of the Government Medical Colleges in the State. There are separate 16-bed inpatient ward for male and female geriatric patients. MCH intends to start the postgraduate course in Geriatrics soon.
The ICUs of Surgery and Neuro Surgery Departments, with 18 beds each, occupies the first floor, whereas the multidisciplinary ICU with 32 beds, including 16 step-down ICU beds will take up the second floor.
The Cardiology Department on third floor will have a Cath lab, Echo lab, 16-bed ICU and a step-down ICU, also with 16 beds.
The Cardiothoracic surgery Department’s two operating rooms and a 16-bed ICU and a 16-bed step-down ICU occupies fourth floor.
The meeting was attended by the Medical College Principal Thomas Mathew, the MCH Superintendent, M. S. Sharmad, the Deputy Superintendent, S. S. Santhoshkumar and the heads of various departments .
