Mental Hospital Incident : Drug overdosage attributed ( 31/01/03)

The Superintendent of Mental Hospital has attributed drug overdosage to the incident last week in which 18 patients were found unconscious in the morning after taking sedative medications overnight. In the primary investivagative report sent to the High Court and Health Directorate, Dr. Jayaram has requested for a detailed investigation. The hospital has informed that all the patients involved are back to full health. Read more (Courtesy The Hindu)

Protest over male ECG Technicians : (31/01/03)

There has been protests in General Hospital about Male ECG Techinicans taking the ECG of female patients. Yesterday, a young woman protested publicly against such an incident and demanded the authorities to provide female ECG technicians to take ECGs of female patients. Apparently, female ECG technicians are deputed for taking the ECGs of female patients in other government hospitals. (Courtesy Malayala Manorama)

SAT Hospital : Public Dormitory (22/01/03)

The story appeared on the papers two days back. It's about the lack of progression of the work on the dormitory planned a few years back at the S. A. T. hospital. Once constructed, it would shelter about 70 bystanders comfortably. I think it should be given priority as the conditions being offered at present to the bystanders of the mothers in Labour are pathetic.

First Key Hole Surgery in Kerala at MCH Tvm : (22/01/03)

The first ever key-hole surgery in performed by a team of Otolaryngologists and Neurosurgeons at Medical College Hospital, Trivandrum on the 20th of January. The team was led by Dr. N. Viswanathan (E. N. T.) and Dr. Devadas (Neurosurgery) removed a pituitary tumor with the help of 'physio' endoscopes. It is slated to be a success and will hopefully lay the path for more advanced surgical techniques being used in our hospital.

Self Financing Medical Colleges : 75% seats via Management (21/01/03)

The High Court issued a statement directing the Self Financing Medical Colleges (as well as other Self Financing professional institutions) to allot 75% of it's seats to the Management quota. Only the rest (25%) will be alloted via merit. This was an order overruling a directive issued by the Government earlier to allot 50% seats through merit. The court also declared that the explanation given by the Government about the expenses of teaching a medical student at a Government Medical College being 1 and a half lakh as 'unclear'.

Hostel Problems Resurface : (13/01/03)

According to the report in today's Malayala Manorama, there is a huge rift between demand and capacity at the Ladies Hostel for the First M. B. B. S. students. The student have filed against the authorities for the lack of even bare minimum facilities. The recently opened dormitory near the Ladies' Hostel is already working at above 200% it's alloted capacity. The dormitory was built so as to allow provision for opening more wards at the hospital complex. This academic year, the percentage of girl student was more than during previous years. The authorities have agreed to reallocate the students to the main Hostel buildings as soon as possible.

New Casualty Block Starts Functioning : (05/01/03)

The new casualty block started functioning at 9.15 am on Monday. Let's just hope that our standards of trauma care get a huge uplift with this. I am a bit sceptical about the fact that three of the operating tables in the block are to be donated to the Kidney Transplantation unit in our hospital. I guess getting the transplantation unit to get back working is very important. But, does that mean compromising three very important tables at the Casualty?