Hospital type Medical College Beds 500 Phone 0474 257 5050 | Emergency department Yes Website [1] Date founded 21 December 2013 | |
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Location Parippally, Kollam, Kerala, India Affiliated university Kerala University of Health Sciences Address Medical college Hospital, Parippally, Kollam, Kerala 691574 Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hours Funding Employees' State Insurance | ||
The Employee's State Insurance Hospital & Medical College, Parippally or Government Medical College, Kollam is the third medical college in Kollam district, Kerala, India, run by the ESI Corporation of India. It is the second medical college project from ESI Corporation of India in the country and the first of its kind in Kerala state. Rs. 480 crores worth Medical College was inaugurated by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in Parippally on 21 December 2013, is the largest Medical College in Kerala in terms of buildings (around 27 blocks).
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With the inauguration of the ESI Medical College in Parippally, the demand of the people of Kollam district to have a medical college of their own in the government sector has been fulfilled. Parippally ESIC Medical College is a 500 bedded medical college with a total built-up area of 12,029 sqmtr.
History
The medical college was initially a project of ESI Corporation. Kodikunnil Suresh, the then Central Deputy Minister of Labour and Employment, announced the ESIC medical college project at Parippally in Kollam during 2012-2013. The works for hospital has been completed and commissioned in December 2013. But in 2014, the NDA lead central ministry decided not to go ahead with ESIC Medical college projects based on a report of the sub-committee that, the projects would probably exhaust the ESI corporation fund. Later in 2016, the UDF lead Kerala Government had decided to take over the institution because of the intervention by the Kollam MP, N.K. Premachandran. But the government had failed to appoint needed faculties and other employees for the institution.
Later, in the months of July–August, the LDF lead new government in Kerala had taken the necessary actions for staff appointments to get the first batch of MBBS at ESIC Medical College in 2016-17 year itself. They have created 108 additional posts at the medical college.
On 14 August 2016, Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the Kollam Government Medical College at Parippally.
Location
The Medical College Hospital is located at Parippally, one of the southern border towns of Kollam District. It is very near to Paravur town. Paravur railway station is the nearest railway station to this hospital. Paravur town and Paravur railway station are 9.7 km away from ESIC Medical College.