Coimbatore Medical College Hospital to get new facilities at cost of Rs 36.60 crore

Coimbatore: In a national conference inaugurated by Health Minister Ma Subramanian, announcements have been made that Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) will get new equipment and facilities at a cost of Rs 36.60 crore. 

CMCH will get three hi-tech centres for genetic disorders that will detect genetic disorders such as Sickle cell anaemia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Down syndrome in patients. It will cost around Rs 2.73 crores to establish the centre.

Due to the increasing footfall at the hospital, patients have been waiting in a long queue to get scanning done so the minister has promised to provide a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner and the scanner will soon be operational at the hospital. Presently, the hospital is able to perform 25 MRI scans per day with one MRI scanner.

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Other facilities include a paying ward at a cost of ₹1 crore, an Emergency Care and Recovery Centre (ECRC) at a cost of ₹ 53 lakh and a dialysis unit and new equipment worth ₹13 lakh.

On the other hand, the minister announced that Government Medical College and ESI Hospital will get an Accident and Emergency Centre at a cost of Rs 34.5 lakhs, reports The Hindu.

Subramanian also said at the conference that the government is taking necessary steps to improve the organ transplantation procedure in government hospitals in the state which was hampered due to the pandemic. Electricity Minister V. Senthil Balaji was also present.

While addressing the situation he told TNIE "Many patients are on the waiting list to get vital organs from donors. Currently, the State has a total of 6,483 people waiting for a kidney transplant, 380 for liver, 43 people for heart and 42 people for a lung transplant."

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"In order to give a new lease of life to these people on the waiting list, we have expedited the organ transplant procedures. As many as 479 vital organs were harvested from 114 brain-dead persons in government facilities, giving a new lease of life to 588 people under the Chief Minister's comprehensive health insurance scheme (CMCHIS) in the past 14 months," he said, adding, a total of 5,557 vital organs have been harvested so far from 1,524 brain-dead persons across the state from 2008 to July 2022.

A release from the hospital said the programme was organised to honour families of organ donors. Ranking first in solid organ transplantation, Tamil Nadu has also received the best State award in cadaver organ donation for five years in a row.