₹58 cr released for MCH infrastructure development.

The first instalment of ₹58.37 crore of the ₹717 crore master plan for the comprehensive development of Thiruvananthapuram Medical College hospital has been sanctioned through Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), an official release said here.

The fund will be utilised for road development inside MCH campus and for creating multi-level car parking facilities.

A sum of ₹18.6 crore has been set aside for road development, ₹12.31 crore for an overbridge road, ₹25.24 crore for multi-level car parks and ₹2.18 crore for electrical works.

The master plan has been drawn up as part of the government’s efforts to make all medical colleges in the State, centres of excellence, Health Minister K. K. Shylaja said in the statement.

Priority is being given to road development and parking facilities as overcrowding and a total lack of parking facilities has been leading to chaos regularly inside MCH campus.

The roads from MCH main entrance to SCTIMST till Child Development Centre and the road from SAT ‘mother and child’ statue till Mortuary-Super Speciality Block to the main road will be developed. The road from the new OP block till the new upcoming construction of SCTIMST is also being developed to allow three-lane one-way traffic.

An elevated road corridor starting from near SCTIMST, which will go over the marshy land in front of the OP block and joining Kumarapuram road between the MCH Men’s hostel and the MCH Department of Physical Medicine is another key reform being planned to ease the traffic congestion inside MCH campus.

In the next phase, funds would be sanctioned for modernising the buildings inside MCH campus.

Construction work of phase I is expected to start by January.

THE HINDU