JIPMER to go for 'massive' modernisation

PUDUCHERRY: Jawaharlal Institute of post-graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), a premier institution launched by the central government some five decades ago here, has drawn up massive plans to modernise the hospital during the current 12th Five Year Plan.
Stating this, JIPMER director T S Ravikumar told reporters that it was proposed to spend crore for modernisation 'through various big projects'.
All patient care, modernization of infrastructure, introduction of Electronic Patient Health Card facilities and augmentation of facilities would be part of the modernization plan chalked out by JIPMER. The super specialty block would also be expanded.
"We would like to ensure that JIPMER emerges as the hospital of the future," he said adding the institute needed 900 more health professionals including doctors and nurses.
JIPMER also intends to start a school of public health in the twelfth plan (2012-17).