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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
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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 |
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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
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Orthopaedics
E.N.T.
Ophthalmology
Anaesthesiology
Blood
Bank & Transfusion services
Accident & Emergency Services
Critical Care Facilities |
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Critical Care
Facilities are available in the following sections :
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i. Internal
Medicine
ii.
Cardiology
iii. General
Surgery
iv.
Neurosurgery
v. Neonatology
vi. Trauma
Care Unit |
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Other facilities :
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.
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