MKCG Medical College and Hospital
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The Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College & Hospital, Bramhapur, Ganjam, Orissa, also popularly known as MKCG Medical College and Hospital, is a government medical college and hospital which started functioning in 1962 and 1966 respectively, as a medical college. Subsequently, both the Medical College and the attached Hospital were renamed after the Late Maharaja of Parlakhemundi, Ganjam, as the Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College & Hospital.
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[edit] Functioning
Operating with 23 Clinical Departments, 8 Non-Clinical & Para-Clinical Departments and with 800 beds, it imparts medical education to 150 Undergraduate Students, 65 Post-graduate Medical Students, 20 Diploma Students in Medical Laboratory Technology and 10 Diploma Students in Medical Radiation Technology,but surprisingly faces very sever shortages of manpower and teaching staff.A tele-medicine unit, provided by the ISRO, is also operational.
This Medical College & Hospital, being the only major medical institution in Southern Orissa, also serves as a Referral Hospital. A Blood Bank is located in a separate building within the medical compound. Recently the building for Regional Diagnostic Centre was completed and it is ready to start functioning with facilities for a variety of sophisticated diagnosis and investigation. The Hospital has also started working on two new separate buildings, dedicated to Trauma Centre and a new, improved, Neurology Department. Within the compound there is a Forensic & Toxicology Department, and a new, upgraded, mortuary is being built.
Residential quarters are provided inside the campus for the teaching and non-teaching staff of both the College and the Hospital.
This medical college has the largest campus of all three government medical colleges in Orissa, but it lacks fencing to demarcate its entire boundary.[clarification needed]
[edit] Criticism
[edit] Course timelines
The college administration has been severely criticized for being unable to complete the mbbs courses within the stipulated time frame of four and a half years as per MCI guidelines.Consecutive principals as well as the DMETs ,have been been accused by ex aluminis for being responsible for the academic lapses and not bothering that the curriculum being late by about one full year for all batches since years.
[edit] Department of physiology/anatomy/biochemistry /microbiology
While the anatomy department suffers from severe shortages of cardavers[1] the other mentioned departments are stacked with outdated and obsolete equipment and have been a major source of complaint by students. The lack of pcr and other modern diagnostic tools has been a handicap to these departments.
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- ^ m.timesofindia.com/city/bhubaneswar/Body-count-falls-short-for-medical-study/articleshow/10550147.cms
