Madras Medical College to move to new building to come up nearby

A new state-of-the-art building would come up at the erstwhile Central prison area for the Madras Medical College, at an estimated cost of Rs. 70 crore, the Tamil Nadu government release said on Wednesday.

The medical college at present is located within the Government General Hospital (GH), and the government has decided to shift to the new eight-storey building that would come up on the ten-acre land, where the central jail once stood.

The new medical college building will have a built-up space of 41,934 sq metres where medical, nursing and paramedical colleges would be run. And it would have all facilities for medical students, a State government release said.

The need for shift arose as the existing college building is more than 100 years old and patients and visitors to the hospital, located opposite the Chennai Central Station, face problems. Around 12,000 people visit the 2,722-bed hospital daily.

The existing college building once vacated would be utilised for hospital expansion. A medical archives centre would be set up in the building.

Construction of the new building would start following floating of tenders in the third week of December, the release said.

- Asian Tribune -