THIRUVANANATHAPURAM: A new medical village is all set to come up at Pirappancode, near here. Titled ‘Malankara Medical Village’, it is a new venture of the St John’s Health Services of the Syro-Malankara Church that has been functioning since 1968.
The St John’s Health Services has already been providing services in leprosy treatment, HIV/AIDS rehabilitation centre, home for the HIV/AIDS infected children and TB centre. The new intervention into general medicine is intended to give better medical care to the people in and around Pirappancode.
The medical village that is coming up would now provide additional services such as diabetic clinic where free treatment will be given to poor patients, a physiotherapy centre that will be established in collaboration with the Malankara Social Service Society, a diabetic research centre intended to check the spread of the lifestyle disease, a palliative centre and a community health centre.
As part of the palliative care initiative, the St John’s mobile medical team will go to every household in Manikkal panchayat to provide care to the needy.
The Community Health Centre, which will become functional this month, will have in the first phase a paediatric department, a dermatology department, a dental department, a mental health department and a general medicine department.
A 24-hour casualty section under the supervision of expert doctors will also be part of the community health centre. The hospital will have an inpatient facility of 50 beds in the preliminary stage.
The medical village will be inaugurated by Minister for Civil Aviations and Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi on Saturday at 3 pm.
Revenue Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan MLA and former Union Minister O Rajagopal will take part in the inaugural ceremony.