In a big decision, the Finance Committee, King George’s Medical University (KGMU) approved Friday the RS 7.5 crore ambitious project to computerize operations in the memorial of Gandhi and countries associated hospitals (GMAH).

If everything goes well, then, within one year, GMAH have less paper and film less to operate. The whole hospital is computer network. By the rules of diagnosis and expertise - by office.

Even X-rays, CT and MRI at the University Hospital of film and less for doctors immediately on their computer screen.

The money was sanctioned by the government. The project was carried out under the technical guidance of experts from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. The proposals are now on the financing of the government commission for the final sharing.

The project was originally planned in 2002, but could not start because of some unavoidable reasons. Later, computerization has been put in place has been proposed for the State-of-art centenary of the hospital under construction in these days.

KOCHI: Dr N. Unnikrishnan Nair, Vice-Chancellor of the Cochin University of Science and Technology, has inaugurated the Winter School on Diagnosis and Management of Diseases in Mariculture at the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute.

As many as 28 delegates from various institutes under ICAR and State Agricultural Universities are participating in this programme.

The Winter School will conclude on November 27, a release said.