SURAT: A month back, hearth in the dialysis centre at the New Civil Hospital (NCH) destroyed large choice of equipment. A fireplace in ICU of a central authority healthcare facility due to negligence of one or other group of workers member is an occurrence which is reported choice of occasions in the final two years. Unused hearth protection equipment which gather mud is a commonplace sight at hospitals. In case of fireplace, panic takes over commonplace sense and lives of sufferers are put in peril.
Chief hearth officer at Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) Vasant Parikh said, “We have served notices to these kind of executive hospitals too. None of them have fully useful hearth preventing systems. Many of the put in equipment are rusted and don’t serve as in the time of disaster.”
Chief medical officer (CMO) of NCH Dr Ketan Nayak said, “We have hydrants, extinguishers etc. They are placed in all wings and at arms duration. We even have conducted demonstration on use it in case of fireplace.”
“However, we don’t have new hearth protection systems put in. Our hearth protection equipment had been put in in 2011-12. After that in line with the new norms, the system isn't in place,” he added.
Nayak said that NCH has a undertaking implementation unit (PIU) which has made plans and to install the new hearth protection system and made request to health department in Gandhinagar. Once the approval comes, the new system can be put in.
Surat NCH is a 1,250-bed clinic having 20 departments with day-to-day outdoor affected person go with the flow of three,500 to four,200. It also has six different extensive care units (ICUs) with 75 bed capability and 18 operation theatres. NCH campus also homes medical college with hostel accommodating 250 scholars.
“Operation theatres (OT), ICUs and even dialysis centres are essentially the most liable to hearth incidents in NCH and even in SMC-run SMIMER,” a senior physician from town said.
“In many of the operation theatres, electric fittings are previous and rusted. There is not any common electric audit even in any such giant executive hospitals. At occasions it is frightening to perform a surgical procedure there,” he added.
It isn't that best NCH the faces such issues. Even Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC)-run SMIMER, which is a 785-bed clinic with 8 ICUs, out affected person department (OPD) of two,800 consistent with day, 20 departments and 18 OTs, faces equivalent problems.
CMO of SMIMER Dr Jayesh Patel said, “We do habits common mock drills and feature all equipment like hearth extinguishers and hydrants up-to-date. Our system is strong.” SMIMER has also witnessed small fires in the final two years at its ICUs and OTs and other places. However, no lack of existence has been reported.
Chief hearth officer at Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) Vasant Parikh said, “We have served notices to these kind of executive hospitals too. None of them have fully useful hearth preventing systems. Many of the put in equipment are rusted and don’t serve as in the time of disaster.”
Chief medical officer (CMO) of NCH Dr Ketan Nayak said, “We have hydrants, extinguishers etc. They are placed in all wings and at arms duration. We even have conducted demonstration on use it in case of fireplace.”
“However, we don’t have new hearth protection systems put in. Our hearth protection equipment had been put in in 2011-12. After that in line with the new norms, the system isn't in place,” he added.
Nayak said that NCH has a undertaking implementation unit (PIU) which has made plans and to install the new hearth protection system and made request to health department in Gandhinagar. Once the approval comes, the new system can be put in.
Surat NCH is a 1,250-bed clinic having 20 departments with day-to-day outdoor affected person go with the flow of three,500 to four,200. It also has six different extensive care units (ICUs) with 75 bed capability and 18 operation theatres. NCH campus also homes medical college with hostel accommodating 250 scholars.
“Operation theatres (OT), ICUs and even dialysis centres are essentially the most liable to hearth incidents in NCH and even in SMC-run SMIMER,” a senior physician from town said.
“In many of the operation theatres, electric fittings are previous and rusted. There is not any common electric audit even in any such giant executive hospitals. At occasions it is frightening to perform a surgical procedure there,” he added.
It isn't that best NCH the faces such issues. Even Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC)-run SMIMER, which is a 785-bed clinic with 8 ICUs, out affected person department (OPD) of two,800 consistent with day, 20 departments and 18 OTs, faces equivalent problems.
CMO of SMIMER Dr Jayesh Patel said, “We do habits common mock drills and feature all equipment like hearth extinguishers and hydrants up-to-date. Our system is strong.” SMIMER has also witnessed small fires in the final two years at its ICUs and OTs and other places. However, no lack of existence has been reported.
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