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Facilities enhanced at Government Hospital

TIRUCHI: Facilities for investigation and treatment at the over 150-year-old Annal Gandhi Memorial Government Headquarters Hospital here is all set for further improvement with the procurement of new devices including life saving equipment.

Catering to nearly 3,000 out-patients every day, the Government Headquarters Hospital attached to the K.A.P.Viswanatham Government Medical College here has been equipped with a Defibrillator, costing Rs.4.36 lakh. The imported equipment will be utilised to resuscitate a “stand still” heart.

Procured last week, the device will be installed in the ambulance in the near future to save patients with stand still heart even while being transported to the hospital. A ventilator has also been procured for exclusive use in the paediatric ward. Costing Rs. 3.86 lakh, the equipment would be used to support respiration of an in-patient child. A Blood Component Separator, costing Rs. 9 crore, has been purchased for the hospital's blood bank.

A digital x-ray unit at a cost of one crore rupees and four pulse oxymeters totally costing one lakh rupees to monitor the oxygen level of the in-patients are the other new equipment that have been procured for the hospital. The new equipment will further improve the investigation and treatment facilities at the hospital, says A..Karthikeyan, Dean, K. A. P.Viswanatham Government Medical College, Tiruchi.

In addition to these, the hospital has been provided with a sophisticated mobile blood bank at a cost of Rs.20 lakh. The mobile unit would be utilised during blood donation camps conducted elsewhere in the district. The unit would collect blood and transport it to the storage unit of the blood bank in refrigerated condition.

Stating that the equipment had been purchased through government funds, Dr.Karthikeyan said sanction had been accorded for the construction of a separate hostel at a cost of Rs. 6 crore within the sprawling hospital premises to accommodate nursing students. The proposed building would be in addition to the existing one. He said a World Bank team had inspected the site for the construction of a multi-storeyed building for maternity and child health inside the hospital premises.

With a bed strength to accommodate 621 patients, the hospital has investigation and treatment facilities for brain fever cases, chickengunya and dengue , says the hospital's Medical Superintendent (in-charge) M.A..Aleem.

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