HYDERABAD: At a time when doctors in some southern states are searhing for an answer to the dreaded Nipah virus from spreading across the nation, Telangana health officials are mulling to set up a cutting-edge health facility at the campus of Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases (Fever Hospital) at Nallakunta to take on infections with strong ammunition. Describing it as first such facility within the nation, health authorities said it has answers to the pressing want for having ‘clean wards’.
The clean ward facility could be supposed completely for housing sufferers of infections like swine flu, zika, Ebola, Japanese encephalitis and the Nipah virus, excluding different deadly virulent outbreaks rising in long run.
The facility would come up on a 12-acre land close to the state-run Fever Hospital with triple protection layers for sufferers, nurses as well as doctors. It could be a secluded quarantine facility clear of different sufferers. “The concept is to ensure that these deadly viruses do not unfold to different sufferers, housed on the health facility,” a best reliable said.
“We have proposed to set up the clean ward facility close to Fever Hospital. The multibedded facility will want finances to the tune of ₹15 crore,” Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) director and superintendent, Fever Hospital, Dr Ok Shankar said.
Many hospitals have a separate ward to quarantine sufferers with ‘unknown fever’ or infections, however the health department officials say the new facility could be a separate building. The proposal for putting in place the ‘clean ward’ could be submitted to the state health department for clearance in the following few days, the reliable added.
The Fever Hospital has about 12 acre land readily available on its campus, of which a few acres could be used for putting in place the ability.
“This discussion was on for a while. Every time there's a patient affected with swine flu or Ebola, we need to determine where to keep the patient. Usually, the sufferers are rushed to Gandhi Hospital and, in lots of cases, the virus spreads to different sufferers additionally. With the clean ward facility, we will be able to curtail unfold of these viruses from patient to patient,” a senior reliable from the state health department added.
The clean ward facility could be supposed completely for housing sufferers of infections like swine flu, zika, Ebola, Japanese encephalitis and the Nipah virus, excluding different deadly virulent outbreaks rising in long run.
The facility would come up on a 12-acre land close to the state-run Fever Hospital with triple protection layers for sufferers, nurses as well as doctors. It could be a secluded quarantine facility clear of different sufferers. “The concept is to ensure that these deadly viruses do not unfold to different sufferers, housed on the health facility,” a best reliable said.
“We have proposed to set up the clean ward facility close to Fever Hospital. The multibedded facility will want finances to the tune of ₹15 crore,” Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) director and superintendent, Fever Hospital, Dr Ok Shankar said.
Many hospitals have a separate ward to quarantine sufferers with ‘unknown fever’ or infections, however the health department officials say the new facility could be a separate building. The proposal for putting in place the ‘clean ward’ could be submitted to the state health department for clearance in the following few days, the reliable added.
The Fever Hospital has about 12 acre land readily available on its campus, of which a few acres could be used for putting in place the ability.
“This discussion was on for a while. Every time there's a patient affected with swine flu or Ebola, we need to determine where to keep the patient. Usually, the sufferers are rushed to Gandhi Hospital and, in lots of cases, the virus spreads to different sufferers additionally. With the clean ward facility, we will be able to curtail unfold of these viruses from patient to patient,” a senior reliable from the state health department added.
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