The Kerala government has sanctioned an amount of Rs 20 crore for renovating the Kottayam Medical College (KMC) and its hospital to make it a centre of excellence within 10 years. The budget is in line with the thinking of the Kerala government to have medical colleges as centre of excellence.

The Kerala government has, apart from the Kottayam Medical College and Hospital, already identified three more medical colleges, viz, Kozhikode Medical College and Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram Medical College and Hospital and Thrissur Medical College and Hospital to make them centres of excellence.

The basic aim of the renovation was to provide better treatment facilities and to curtail the exodus of doctors. Most of the doctors have been leaving KMC owing to shortage of academic facilities, according to Dr. P. Chandramohan, Principal , KMC. The strengthening of the academic facilities will also from part of the renovation exercise.

KMC was established on December 3, 1962. The college achieved 100 per cent results in MBBS last year.