Periyar Nagar Government Hospital To Be Bigger in 2025

 Construction of news buildings for the govt hospital at Periyar Nagar is expected to be completed by March 2025. The expansion will increase the bed capacity from 300-827, besides offering additional healtcare servtices that will significantly improve access for about 15 lakh residents. Established in 1986 as a 100-bed facility, the Madras Medical College-affiliated  facility was intended sygeries to ease overcrowding at Rajiv Gandhi Govt General Hospital https://www.tn.gov.in/ta/detail_contact/4422/4 ( RGGGH ). In 2021, height of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was upgraded to a300-bed facility. Besides maternity services, patients come to the hospital for laparoscopic appendectomy, hernia repair, removal pf gallbladder stones, skin grafting, and other plastic surgeries. 

The hospital aims to become an organ havest centre and start PG Courses, said around of medical education, Dr J Sangumani. The hospital, which currently has around 20 doctors and 23 nurses, has requested additional stagg. RGGGH deam Dr E Theranirajan said the upgraded facility will have more staff. 

An Upgraded hopsital will provide most secondaty care services closer to home free of cot. 

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