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Medical College, Kottayam
started functioning as the third of its kind in the state of Kerala in
December 1962. The campus is located 8 kilometers north of Kottayam a small
agrarian township located in Central Travancore. The Medical College Kottayam
which was functioning in District Hospital, Kottayam from 1962 to 1970
was shifted to Arpookkara in April 1970 at the first stage. At the second
stage in 1975 all the clinical departments were shifted to the Gandhinagar
campus. The same year the Children's hospital (Institute of Child Health)
was taken over and added to Medical College Kottayam. A new B block (administrative
block) was started in 1985. In 1996 the the C block was added to the complex
housing departments of Pharmacology, Pathology, Microbiology and also a
full fledged library and computer and internet facilities.
The collegiate institutions
attached to Medical College Kottayam are Medical College Hospital (MCH),
Institute of Child Health (ICH), Nursing College (CNK), Kottayam and Medical
College Health Center, Ettumanoor (KMCHC). Through over 35 years
the campus has grown into a small township with in house banking facilities,
Cooperative store, Post Office, canteens, hotels, lodging facilities as
well as subsidized hostels and accommodations for the faculty.
MCK takes in around 100 MBBS students, 77
Postgraduate degree & diploma students, 30
Pharmacy Diploma students, 15 Medical Laboratory
Technology Diploma students, 50 BSc Nursing
Students and 8 Superspeciality students each year. The present
faculty strength of the College is
about 300. The bed strength of the Medical College Hospital
alone is 1101. The present facilities available in the
Hospital include: round the clock Casualty service, Blood Bank facility,
modern lab and imaging services, Colour doppler, TMT, Holter Monitor,Haemodyalisis, Facilities for Endoscopic & laparoscopic procedures,
Facilities for Open Heart Surgery, Specialised Pain Clinic under Anaesthesiology,
Computerised Pulmonary Function Lab under Chest
& TB, Cardiac Rehabilitation Centre under Cardiology,Specialised Trauma Care Centre, Advanced Intensive Care Units for Surgery, Medicine,Cardiac services, Neurosurgery & Plastic Surgery.
Medical College, Kottayam
is constantly in the process of upgrading its facilities, services and
academic excellence. Advanced imaging facilities and sophisticated equipment
for a technologically competent, at the same time humane health care has
already been established here. Being a hundred percent subsidized institution,
Medical College Kottayam depends almost entirely on government grants for
its budgetary support.
