25-04-2025
New equipment commissioned at Tiruchi GH
District Collector M. Pradeep Kumar inaugurated new equipment worth ₹98.40 lakh at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) in Tiruchi on Friday.
In an official release, hospital authorities said that the new tools were an echocardiogram (ECG) with adult, paediatric and neonatal probe; a pulsed electro-magnetic stimulation therapy device, and a combined ultrasonic therapy tool for all types of pain. The machines are sponsored by the Corporate Social Responsibility funds of Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), Chennai
The new equipment would be useful in treating cardiac patients, newborns and mothers, and augment the healing of fractures, besides aiding pain relief, said the release. At present, the Cardiology department receives at least 200 patients for ECG services.
The instruments were launched by the Collector in the presence of Jacintha Lawrence, CWC executive director (South), S. Kumarvel, Dean, K.A.P.V. Government Medical College, MGMGH medical superintendent Udhaya Aruna and deputy superintendent Arun Raj.
