Tamil Nadu: MGMGH to get 600-bedded facility at cost of Rs 110 crore

Trichy: The Tamil Nadu government has approved a budget of Rs 110 Crore for upgrading Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) into a broad specialty hospital. The construction work of a new building will be initiated soon with the budget.

The initiative of the new building has been taken considering the medical needs of people in Trichy and surrounding districts. The confirmation of this news has been given by the State finance minister P T R Palanivel Thiagarajan during the budget session of the Tamil Nadu assembly. In addition to the available 1,600 beds, which are usually occupied, the hospital would receive additional 600 beds with the construction of the proposed facility. 

Designed to serve the purpose of a broad specialty hospital, the facility is structured to include the departments of medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, ENT, dermatology, blood bank, and central laboratory. X-ray rooms and other amenities could be added to the new structure. Authorities have already earmarked an area of 26,000 sqft to build the ground floor plus a six-floor building, reports the daily. 

Sources at MGMGH informed Times of India that the hospital will probably have the new facility built on the campus itself. A senior doctor stated that the building's site has not yet been chosen. The parking space will probably be used for the construction work. One of the senior doctors also informed that MGMGH already has a Rs 100 Crore worth six-story superspecialty and trauma care building. J. Jayalalithaa, one of the former chief ministers inaugurated the structure in February 2014.

But, due to a lack of room in other old buildings on the campus's wide 25-acre property, the hospital also accommodated the general departments of various branches. KAP Viswanatham Government Medical College (KAPVGMC), attached to MGMGH is situated at Periya Milaguparai on Collector’s Office Road. 

The college authorities have always paid close attention to the demands of the public to cater to their need at the earliest. Upgraded as a medical college hospital attached to the KAP Viswanatham Government Medical College (KAPVGMC) in 1997, the tertiary care hospital lacked a department for cancer treatment. The situation remained unchanged even after the hospital was equipped with the super specialty block in April 2014, thus forcing many poor patients to rely on private hospitals in the city or the government hospitals in Madurai, Thanjavur and Kancheepuram. In order to address the problem in 2016 Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) announced the launch of its first cancer clinic in the hospital and ever since MGMCH had ensured the availability of the best Healthcare services.