Valliyoor Government Hospital to be inaugurated soon

The Valliyoor Government Hospital in Tirunelveli district, which has been built on an outlay of ₹30 crore, is set to be inaugurated within a week.

The hospital, equipped with modern medical facilities, including four operation theatres, will serve patients from the southern part of the district, sources in the Department of Health Services said.

Patients from poor families have to travel for about 45 minutes at least to reach either Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital or Kanniyakumari Government Medical College Hospital at Aasaaripallam in Nagercoil for medical treatment. Hence, Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker and Radhapuram MLA M. Appavu submitted an appeal with Chief Minister M.K. Stalin during his visit to the district. And the plea has taken concrete shape now with the launching of a full-fledged hospital at Valliyoor, which is situated advantageously on the four-lane national highway to save accident victims.

The hospital has modern medical facilities to ensure better health care for patients. The ground floor of the hospital has clinical diagnostic services, CT scan, digital X-ray, ultrasound scan, ECG, general medicine, paediatric, gynaecology, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, psychiatry and dermatology departments and a kitchen for preparing food for the patients.

Facilities for post-mortem has also been created separately on the campus as the victims of medico-legal cases, especially fishermen drowned in the sea, are taken to Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital or Kanniyakumari District Government Medical College Hospital at Aasaaripallam in Nagercoil.

The first floor houses in-patient wards, post-operative care ward, dialysis, among other facilities, and the intensive care units, four operation theatres, tuberculosis ward, de-addiction ward, HIV treatment ward and geriatric ward have been created on the second floor.

“While the geriatric ward is a common feature in a medical college hospital in the modern medicine, for the first time, a geriatric ward is being created in a government hospital for benefiting senior citizens from southern Tirunelveli,” Mr. Appavu said.

Another facility that the government hospital is likely to get in near future is a nursing college, as the Tamil Nadu Government recently sanctioned the project for Tirunelveli district. Minister for Public Health Ma. Subramanian had promised the facility when he inspected the construction of Valliyoor Government Hospital a year ago.

“If the Centre sanctions just one nursing college for Tamil Nadu, it will be allotted for Valliyoor Government Hospital, as requested by the Speaker,” he said.