Kundara Taluk hospitals will be used for major infrastructure upgrades

Kundara Taluk Hospital is launching advanced medical services as construction of the new building is in its final stages and a dialysis unit is also established with the support of local agencies

Kundara Taluk Hospital, which started with humility in a ceramic tile building decades ago, is now on the cusp of a major transformation. The construction of a modern, multi-story building with a cost of Rs 76.13 crore is about to be completed from the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Committee (KIIFB). This development began with the Aardram Project in 2020, a statewide program designed to improve facilities in all government hospitals in Kerala. The hospital is a critical medical life span for workers in the local community, especially the cashew, coal and fishing sectors in the area. With the new building, the hospital will provide patients with 150 beds, as well as services including state-of-the-art salaried wards and enhanced OP facilities. Currently, it has gynecology, dentistry, pediatrics and general medicine departments. The new seven-story building will also serve orthodontics, surgery, ENT and ophthalmology. Additionally, it will feature two action theatres, four ICUs, a general salary ward, scanning lab, X-ray, autopsy and Mortuary facilities. Chittumala Block Panchayat has established a dialysis unit in the hospital and will be inaugurated soon. The installation is located on the second floor of the old building. The equipment worth Rs 6.5 lakh was purchased using Block Panchayat’s FY22-23 fund and other arrangements were made at Rs 2.8 lakh allocated by the 2024-25 Program Fund. There will be seven dialysis units that can benefit six patients at the same time. The dialysis unit will also give relief to patients with Kottarakkara block limits, including Elampalloor, Kareepra and Ezhukone. Two dialysis technicians and cleaning staff were appointed. The new service will help ordinary patients who currently have to go to a government medical school, Kollam or regional hospital for dialysis.