Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated 15 major development projects worth over Rs 180 crore at the Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, on Monday. The initiatives include completed projects valued at Rs 98.79 crore and new projects totaling Rs 81.50 crore. The chief minister highlighted that these projects reflect the government’s patient-centric approach to public healthcare.
“These new facilities will transform patient care at the hospital, enabling faster and more accurate diagnoses, improving treatment outcomes, and reducing costs for the public,” he said. Health Minister Veena George presided over the function.
Among the inaugurated projects is a state-of-the-art seven-storey operation theatre complex with 14 theatres, 145 beds, and 16 ICU units. A new six-storey MLT block houses a library, conference hall, six lecture halls, five research rooms, and an examination hall. The Imaging Department now features advanced equipment, including portable digital radiography, four ultrasound machines, two stationary digital radiography units, an MRI machine, a CTDR unit, a mobile DR unit, and a portable X-Ray machine.
The hospital’s cath labs for neuro, cardiology, and interventional radiology were augmented with a new KHRWS-funded lab. Additionally, a SPECT CT unit has been installed in the Nuclear Medicine Department.
The SAT Hospital facilities were expanded with new paediatric neuro and nephrology wards, a paediatric nephro dialysis unit—the state’s first dedicated paediatric haemodialysis unit in the public sector—and a paediatric gastro endoscopy unit. Other additions include a Mother-Newborn care unit, skin bank, urodynamic study centre, and the third human milk bank in a government medical college in Kerala. Health Minister Veena George described these developments as a transformative phase for the Medical College.