Health Minister Veena George has directed that the paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) at the Kottathara tribal specialty hospital at Attappady be readied by September 15.
She was addressing a joint meeting of the Health and the Women and Child Development departments here.
Administrative sanction had been given for ₹7.25 crore for the development of the Kottathara hospital so that it can be elevated to a modern mother and child hospital. Ms. George directed that the work be expedited.