MKCG eyes better set-up

Authorities of the MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur had a detailed discussion with officials of the construction company which the state government has asked to execute nine development projects on the campus. The state government has sanctioned Rs 118.8 crore for the projects and Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has been entrusted with the task of executing the plan. The facilities include an academic block with a concrete stage and lecture theatre, 1,500-seat capacity auditorium, a six-storey building near the boys’ hostel to house super-specialty departments, including neurology, burn and plastic surgery and euro surgery. Separate blocks will be built for some of the departments and a laboratory.

According to the new proposal, a 300-capacity boys’ hostel, a 100-capacity PG hostel, a 100-capacity senior residents’ hostel, two ladies’ hostel (100-capacity undergraduate and 100-capacity postgraduate), separate building for the nursing school with 50-capacity boys’ hostel and 200-capacity girls’ hostel will be built. Principal A.K. Dandapat said: “L&T will built these projects on a turnkey basis and the medical college will get an infrastructural boost. The intake of MBBS seats will be hiked from 150 to 250 once the construction is over. Better set-up will help us to approach the Medical Council of India for an additional increase of 100 MBBS seats from the next academic year.” He said infrastructure development of the medical college was the council’s precondition to increase the MBBS seats.

Principal architect of the company S. Krishnamoorty and its project head Jaydeep Sengupta visited various sites of the proposed projects on the campus yesterday. “They discussed with me about the inflow of patients, college and hospital management and the present status,” Dandapat said. “We want to build a united structure for smooth hospital and college management,” the principal said. The site selection and development committee of the MKCG consisting of five professors of various departments, including Dr Srikrushna Mahapatra (Biochemistry), Dr Bipin Bihari Pradhan (physiology), Dr K.C. Biswal (radiology) besides the principal, have suggested sites to set up various buildings.

Source: The Telegraph