TRICHY: Four new buildings were inaugurated for the benefit of staff and students at the KAP Viswanatham Government Medical College Hospital (KAPVGMC) and Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) attached to it on Friday. Chief minister J Jayalalithaa inaugurated the buildings through video conferencing.
The medical college, which was established in 1997 with 100 MBBS seats, was sanctioned additional 50 seats in 2013-14. However, the recognition to the seats was put on hold, after officials from the medical council of India (MCI) found that the facilities at the institute did not meet the specifications of the council. To cope up with the demands of the increased number of students in the undergraduate course, the college has had to improve its facilities.
A two-storey new examination hall which has a total area of 1264.60 square metres was inaugurated on Friday. The building, which came up at a revised cost of Rs 1.69 crore, can accommodate 150 students at a time. The old examination hall will continue to function.
Residential quarters for medical professors and non-teaching staff working in both the college and the hospital have also come up. Constructed at the revised cost of Rs 7.53 crore, the quarters can soon house 24 medical professors and 36 non-teaching staff.
In addition, residential quarters for doctors have been constructed at cost of Rs 3.22 crore to accommodate 90 post-graduate doctors and was inaugurated on Friday. The building has four floors including the ground floor, with an office room and dining room on the ground and first floors respectively and bedrooms attached with bathrooms on third and fourth floors.
Sanitary workers at the hospital will also get new accommodation. Residential quarters specifically for sanitary workers was inaugurated on the MGMGH campus. Eighteen sanitary workers are expected to occupy the two-storey building.
All the buildings, except the sanitary workers' quarters, were constructed at revised costs.
The medical college, which was established in 1997 with 100 MBBS seats, was sanctioned additional 50 seats in 2013-14. However, the recognition to the seats was put on hold, after officials from the medical council of India (MCI) found that the facilities at the institute did not meet the specifications of the council. To cope up with the demands of the increased number of students in the undergraduate course, the college has had to improve its facilities.
A two-storey new examination hall which has a total area of 1264.60 square metres was inaugurated on Friday. The building, which came up at a revised cost of Rs 1.69 crore, can accommodate 150 students at a time. The old examination hall will continue to function.
Residential quarters for medical professors and non-teaching staff working in both the college and the hospital have also come up. Constructed at the revised cost of Rs 7.53 crore, the quarters can soon house 24 medical professors and 36 non-teaching staff.
In addition, residential quarters for doctors have been constructed at cost of Rs 3.22 crore to accommodate 90 post-graduate doctors and was inaugurated on Friday. The building has four floors including the ground floor, with an office room and dining room on the ground and first floors respectively and bedrooms attached with bathrooms on third and fourth floors.
Sanitary workers at the hospital will also get new accommodation. Residential quarters specifically for sanitary workers was inaugurated on the MGMGH campus. Eighteen sanitary workers are expected to occupy the two-storey building.
All the buildings, except the sanitary workers' quarters, were constructed at revised costs.
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