Three months into Health Minister overview assembly, no progress in building work of Kasaragod medical faculty

By Express News Service

KASARGOD: Three months after Health Minister Veena George indicated the development of a brand new block at Government Medical College, Kasargod, the federal government has not even known as a young for the electrification of the block.

TNIE visited the medical faculty at Ukkinadka to take inventory of the progress of labor when 10,000 residents of the district had already joined on website demanding an AIIMS in Kasargod.

The new hospital block challenge is beneath the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB).

“But KIIFB’s engineers have not yet come to the hospital for site inspection. How can it float tender? Things are static here,” stated a physician.

“You can write off this year,” he stated. He identified that when the tender is floated, it’s going to take one other three months to zero in on a contractor, and the electrification work would take not less than six months. The remainder of the civil works must be accomplished after that.

The medical faculty is presently providing solely outpatient (OP) session providers from the Academic Block. “There is nothing much we can do. We cannot scale up our services in this block which is meant to be classrooms, labs and auditorium,” he stated.

The Health Minister Veena George had known as up a overview assembly to audit the progress of the work. She informed the media that she had rendered some change in plans within the building of the block. She introduced then that the bottom ground of the hospital constructing can be able to occupy in six months (May).

There are 5 specialist docs providing session in medication, neurology, nephrology, rheumatology, paediatric, psychiatry and pulmonology. But the specialist docs haven’t any device or gadget to make any superior intervention. Another 5 junior docs handle the native OP.

Except for Saturdays, all different days have 4 to 6 docs on name. Yet, the common footfall within the hospital is 50 to 60 sufferers, stated a workers.

TNIE contacted Enmakaje panchayat’s Family Health Centre (FHC) at Perla, which is 3km from the medical faculty, to disparate the influx of sufferers.

The FHC, regardless of its improve in identify, has just one junior physician, who attends to 80 to 100 sufferers day-after-day.

The Community Health Centre at Badiadka will get round 200 sufferers day-after-day and through fever season, as much as 750 sufferers go to the hospital, stated a nurse.

Staff on the medical faculty stated solely sufferers with gentle signs and people with their very own automobiles got here to the OP clinic. “One, there are no frequent buses and two, there are no facilities here for seriously ill patients,” she added.

The workers additionally identified that the sufferers coming to the OP clinic require specialist docs.

Kalandar Shah, a local of Shenni in Enmakaje panchayat, was on the hospital asking for a dermatologist. He was directed to a normal doctor. “We want the government to set up the medical college hospital as soon as possible and not sit on the project,” he stated.

Shah stated he has to take three buses to achieve General Hospital in Kasaragod, the place there are specialist docs. “But I can reach medical college in 20 minutes. It will be a big favour to the people of Badiadka and Enmakaje panchayat if the government starts the hospital,” he stated.

“We have to run the hospital with an inpatient facility for two years before the National Medical Commission can give permission to admit MBBS students,” stated a physician.

Kasaragod district doesn’t have a tertiary hospital and the medical faculty hospital at Ukkinadka has been within the making since November 30, 2013, when Oommen Chandy laid the muse stone.