New superspeciality departments will be started at Government Medical College, Manjeri, soon and 15 faculty posts have been created for the same, Health Minister Veena George said in the Kerala Assembly on January 29 (Monday).
Replying to a calling attention motion by P. Nandakumar on the need to prioritise the development and modernisation of government medical colleges, especially the one at Manjeri, Ms. George said that emergency medicine, physical medicine, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, nephrology, urology and neurology divisions will be started at the Manjeri Medical College Hospital (MCH) soon.
She said that new postgraduate courses are also being introduced at Manjeri and Kollam MCHs. Land acquisition for improving the physical infrastructure at Manjeri MCH is being speeded up. A nursing college with 60 seats has also been started alongside the medical college.