Minister visits site at GH for super specialty block

The proposed Rs.100 crore super specialty centre at the Annal Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital would be established as a six storied structure housing 10 medical and surgical departments spread over 6,000 square feet.

As a preliminary exercise following the Chief Minister's announcement, Health and Family Welfare Minister V.S.Vijay inspected the infrastructure and healthcare facilities at the hospital here on Sunday.

Accompanied by Animal Husbandry Minister, N.R.Sivapathi and Collector Jayashree Muralidharan, he reviewed the site for the proposed centre. Going through the blueprint of the hospital with Public Works Department engineers and health officials, he advised a few changes in the current plan. He suggested a 40 feet pathway from the main road be created to facilitate direct entrance to the new block.

The proposed 300-bed super speciality block would house 10 speciality departments in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, nephrology, urology, plastic surgery, paediatric surgery, medical and surgical gastroenterology.

Around 12 structures including the skin ward would be demolished for the establishment of the new centre, M.A.Aleem, Vice-Principal, K.A.P.Viswanatham Medical College, told The Hindu. Transplant procedures and trauma care will also get an uplift, officials confirmed.