K . Muraleedharan, Health Minister of Kerala,announced initiatives to boost operations at Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) and Government General Hospital in Kozhikode. After visiting both on June 10,2026,he laid out plans to improve infrastructure,create new medical positions.
Key proposal: establish Department of Reproductive Medicine at MCH . Aim is better fertility treatment options. Minister confirmed more nursing officer roles for superspeciality block of medical college . Radiotherapy gets senior resident doctor,while Interventional Radiology to receive new faculty or head.
Orthopaedics Department gains assistant professor. Children's intensive care unit will move to different floor,offering better facilities. Operation theatre for cochlear implant surgeries to be renovated. Heart-lung machine to support cardiac surgeries coming too.
Doctors raised concerns over financial woes. Government owes hundreds of crores for treatments under insurance schemes. Debt causing funding shortfall,complicating payments to equipment distributors,hindering new staff hires.
To tackle some issues,Muraleedharan said district MLAs' development funds will buy ventilators for departments. He also ordered hospital to fix water leaks in old casualty building,solve drinking water shortage .
Besides MCH upgrades,general hospital at Kozhikode beach set for major revamp. In meeting with officials,Muraleedharan reviewed infrastructure needs,staffing,medical equipment status . Enhancing beach hospital crucial to ease load at medical college hospital. Plans aim to elevate its capabilities to match Government General Hospital in Ernakulam…but will it be enough?
