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August 12, 2025

Innovation Entrepreneurship & Development Centres proposed way back in 2022

- ANU KURUVILLA @ Kochi

AT A TIME when much of the onus is being put on the need for innovation in the health and medicine sector, the absence of Innovation Entrepreneurship & Development Centres (IEDCs) in Government Medical Colleges and hospitals stood out like a sore thumb. But that will be a thing of the past since the Department of Health and Family Welfare has issued an order giving approval to set up IEDCs in medical colleges in the state. The discussions regarding the IEDCs in medical colleges had begun way back in 2022 when the same was proposed by the state chapter of Indian Medical Association (IMA) and Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM).

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