Authorities medical school hospitals (MCHs) are being pushed to the restrict due to the massive inflow of sufferers from the periphery and in addition as a result of many sufferers are referred to the MCHs from non-public hospitals as high-end care in these hospitals are unaffordable to most, Well being Minister Veena George has mentioned.
Speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of an occasion organized in reference to Youngsters’s Day right here, Ms. George mentioned that authorities MCHs take lots of flak as a result of these establishments are taking in additional sufferers than they’ll accommodate.
The MCHs, as tertiary-care establishments, can not refuse care to individuals citing lack of beds or amenities. MCHs try and ease this case by increasing amenities and decentralizing care haven’t been profitable because of the heavy inflow of individuals in search of tertiary care, she mentioned.
Although a brand new 100-bed ICU has been readied in Thiruvananthapuram Authorities Medical Faculty Hospital, individuals proceed to be on the ready listing for ICU/ventilator amenities.
Ms. George mentioned that the MCHs had been additionally slowed down by deputies remaining in wards as they’d nowhere else to go. Steps will probably be taken to shift as many as 77 destitutes on the Thiruvananthapuram MCH to appropriate shelter properties with the assistance of the Social Justice division, she mentioned.
The Well being Minister additionally mentioned that the brand new referral protocol will probably be strictly applied in order that none within the periphery can refer sufferers to tertiary care hospitals with out first ascertaining whether or not the MCHs have enough amenities, akin to mattress, ICU, ventilator, that could be required for the referred affected person. Non-public hospitals additionally can not dump sufferers on the MCHs anymore with out first checking whether or not the latter can accommodate them.
Ms. George added that 202 new posts had been created in varied specialties in hospitals beneath the Directorate of Well being Companies and that hospitals within the periphery had been anticipated to offer care to as many individuals as potential as an alternative of blindly referring them to the MCHs.
Printed – November 14, 2025 08:11 pm IST