MCI nod for Pudukottai medical college

Sources told The Hindu that construction of all hospital buildings and residential quarters has almost been completed. Anatomy, physiology and biochemistry faculty block for first year had already been completed. Similarly, construction of Out Patient block, special OP block, pharmacies and laboratories had also been completed.

The college will have a Central Sterilisation Unit (CSU), which is used for processing, sterilisation and quality control of all sterile supplies and equipments used in patient-care units. Construction work for the CSU is over, in addition to residential and residence quarters of doctors, students, nurses, house surgeons, dean, Resident Medical Officer, superintendent and others.

The Public Works Department is likely to formally hand over the buildings to the Directorate of Medical Education soon for inauguration. Chief Minister Edapaddi K. Palaniswami is likely to inaugurate the medical college in the first or second week of June.

The Pudukottai Government Medical College is the first government medical college in the State to get permission for 150 MBBS seats in the first year of inception of the college. No other medical college had got more than 100 seats in its first year of inception.

Moreover, it is probably the first medical college in the State to get the MCI nod within 14 months of start of construction of its buildings.