Master Plan for Pathanamthitta General Hospital

The Health department would open a Karunya community pharmacy of the Kerala Medical Services Corporation Ltd at the General Hospital here soon as part of the Government’s market intervention strategy to regulate the prices of essential and live-saving drugs, said Mr Adoor Prakash, Health Minister.


Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Mr Prakash said the Karunya community pharmacies would be opened at all district headquarters in the State and would be extended to more places in a phased manner.


The Minister said the Karunya project has been getting very good response from the public in Thiruvananthapuram. The outlet opened in the capital has been registering sales revenue between Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 2 lakh a day, he said.



Masterplan for general hospital


The Minister said a comprehensive master plan would be prepared soon for the overall development of the Pathanamthitta General Hospital.


The Public Works Department would prepare the master plan and it would be implemented in a time-bound fashion itself.


He said the new hospital block that has been lying unutilised since the past one year owing to certain legal disputes over construction of a septic tank close by an adjoining residential building would be opened soon for the patients.


He said a 10-bed dialysis centre would be set at the new block at an estimate cost of Rs 1 crore.


Five of the 10 dialysis units would be donated by the Dr K.P. Hussein Charitable Trust as part of its charity programme to donate five dialysis units each to the Government hospitals at all 14 district headquarters in the State, he said.


STP to be set up


Mr Prakash said a sewage treatment plant (STP) would also be set up at the General Hospital in the next one year.


The Kerala State Pollution Control Board has already sanctioned fund worth Rs 25 lakhs for the proposed STP project and the remaining fund for the Rs 69-crore project would be borne by the hospital development committee and the Government.


The Minister said the Health department would augment treatment facility for lifestyle diseases at the General Hospital.


He said a Rs 6.5 crore project for setting up advanced treatment facility for various lifestyle diseases would be implemented at the General Hospital and the work on the Rs 25-lakh Cardiac Care Unit has been completed.


The Minister said all Government hospitals in the State would be provided with adequate treatment facility for non-communicable diseases soon.


K. Sivadasan Nair, MLA; Babu George, District Panchayat president; Mr P. Venugopal, District Collector; Laila Divakar, District Medical Officer; Paulus Eapen, Environment Engineer of PCB and district officials attached to PWD attended the meeting convened by the Minister, earlier.