When the T.D.Medical College was started, the District Headquarters Hospital at Alappuzha was being used as the teaching hospital for training the medical students. This hospital was further developed by constructing additional buildings for the inpatient wards to meet the requirements of a teaching institution as per the stipulation of Indian Medical Council (IMC).

Subsequently in 1973, the whole District Hospital was handed over to the Principal, T.D.Medical College, Alappuzha, as this was required for the recognition of the medical college by I.M.C. Thus this became the T.D.Medical College Hospital under the administrative control of the Principal, T.D.Medical College. This hospital now with a bed strength of 920 is being used to train both the undergraduate and postgraduate students and also the house surgeons.

Administration :

The administration of the Medical College Hospital is the responsibility of the Medical Superintendent, who is usually a Professor or Associate Professor in any of the Clinical Departments. He is assisted by the Lay Secretary & Treasurer in financial matters and by the Deputy Superintendent and Resident Medical Officer in routine administration. The duties of the Nurses and other hospital staff are supervised by the Nursing Superintendent.

List of Medical Superintendents till date :

1.Dr.M.G.Sahadevan 2.Dr.P.P.Joseph 3.Dr.R.K.Shenoy 4.Dr.D.V.Nair 5.Dr.P.B.Nambiar 6.Dr.K.Y.Roy 7.Dr.O.S.Radhakrishna Pillai 8.Dr.A.Premachandran 9.Dr.V.K..Bhaskaran 10.Dr.V.P.Viswakumar 11.Dr.V.Ramananda Pai 12.Dr.Francis

Departments functioning in the hospital :

Internal Medicine

Allied specialities : Cardiology, Neurology, T.B.& Chest Diseases, Gastro-enterology. A new Nephrology unit is sanctioned in 1999.

General Surgery

Allied specialities : Urology, Neurosurgery

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Paediatrics :

Allied specialities : Paediatric Surgery, Neonatology

Orthopaedics E.N.T. Ophthalmology Anaesthesiology Blood Bank & Transfusion services Accident & Emergency Services Critical Care Facilities

Critical Care Facilities are available in the following sections :

i.   Internal Medicine ii.  Cardiology iii. General Surgery iv. Neurosurgery v. Neonatology vi. Trauma Care Unit

i. Medical Records Library

ii. Mortuary with cold storage facility

iii. Incinerator

iv. District Medibank

v. Consumer Co-operative Society

vi. Canteen

MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL, VANDANAM

In the master plan of the T.D.Medical College it is envisaged that in due course the college campus at Vandanam will be developed into a full fledged medical college complex, to include all the teaching hospital buildings; residential quarters for the staff; hostel facilities for the students, house surgeons and nursing staff; stadium and playgrounds etc. Thus work of the new hospital building and residential quarters for the staff is proceeding well at Vandanam.

As a part of this plan to shift the Medical College Hospital to the college campus at Vandanam, the following departments were shifted on 25-02-1991 and are now functioning in the new hospital building there .These are Psychiatry, Dermatology & Veneriology, Radiotherapy, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Dentistry.There are 111 beds in this new hospital.