Medical College will Ensure Quality Medicare

Medical College will Ensure Quality Medicare

Dharmapuri: The State Government in the Budget announced that the backward district of Dharmapuri would have a medical college.

The announcement has given a ray of hope to the district which has poor health indices compared to those in other districts.

The district has the highest infant the maternal mortality rates in the State. Cases of female infanticide and foeticide are also high here.

The 400- bed district headquarters hospital centers to 1,750 and 2,000 outpatients every day and has 350 inpatients on an average. But it does not have enough infrastructure and manpower.

Lack of specialities in surgery, psychiatry, dermatology, venereology, nephrology and urology in the hospital has resulted in cased being referred to either Salem or Bangalore. The hospital does not have a cancer ward, a burns ward and an intensive coronary care unit (ICCU).

It is an major referral centre for many rural pockets in Pennagaram and Harur, but acute shortage of doctors and other para-medical staff has hampered its functioning.

According to Dharmapuri MP. Dr. Senthil: “The establishment of a Government Medical College of Hospital will ensure round-the-clock emergency care in othopaedics, cardiac and other specialist departments. The existing infrastructure in the Dharmapuri Government Hospital will also be upgraded which will benefit the poor from far-flung areas of Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts.”

The district administration has identified three locations; at Pennagaram Road, Harur Road and NH-47 near Nallampalli for the proposed medical college hospital.

A high-level delegation from the State Government will visit Dharmapuri to finalize the location, said Collector Pankaj Kumar Bansal.

Medical College will Ensure Quality Medicare

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