Thiruvananthapuram medical college to offer MCh course in reproductive medicine

Thiruvananthapuram: The Thiruvananthapuram medical college has decided to start M.Ch course in reproductive medicine. At present, no government medical college in the country has such a course. Only two private colleges have approval for the course from the medical council now. Health minister K.K. Shylaja said that the state government had sanctioned the additional posts needed for starting the course. These are the posts of assistant professor and associate professor apart from the existing post of assistant professor.

The course will be linked to the fertility clinic functioning in SAT hospital under the medical college, which provides fertility treatment at affordable cost. This is part of a plan to convert the medical college into a centre for excellence, Ms Shylaja said. Steps have been initiated to start a paediatric cardiology unit at the SAT hospital where 13 new posts had been sanctioned earlier, Ms Shylaja said.