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Plan to provide more facilities at GRH

MADURAI: Facilities at Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) and Madurai Medical College are to be improved with the objective of ensuring better health delivery.

According to S.M. Sivakumar, Dean (in-charge), a proposal has been prepared at an estimated cost of Rs.40 crore and sent to the Government for approval.

“We are planning to construct an exclusive administrative block to house the Dean’s office and the Medical Records Department. As of now, the office is functioning on the corridor and needs immediate attention. Moreover, the Medical Records Department is bursting at its seams with no space to hold burgeoning medical records. It looks cramped under the tiled roof room, desperately requiring a spacious place to preserve the records,” said Dr. Sivakumar.

The administrative block would house the Dean’s room, office and Medical Records Department.

The Dean’s office would also have a conference hall.

“As per the Medical Council of India norms the Dean’s office should have a conference hall. But we don’t have one now. All the meetings are conducted in the Dean’s chamber,” he said.

The GRH was also planning to set up a centralised laboratory facility in order to provide hassle free service to patients.

“At present, the bio chemistry, clinical pathology and microbiology sections are located at different places forcing the patients to provide their blood samples at different locations. The patients have to be punctured to collect blood each time. On the contrary, if the lab services are centralised all the three centres can work on the single sample collected at one place,” he said.

The Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) Centre at the GRH would be remodelled on the lines of the ART Centre in Tambaram at a cost of Rs.30 lakh, he said.

“A blueprint for the centre is ready. Once the National Aids Control Organisation sanctions the project, the work will begin,” said Dr. Sivakumar.

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