By writer to timesofindia.indiatimes.com
KOLKATA: MR Bangur Hospital’s ICU and the dialysis unit for Covid-19 sufferers are all set to start out functioning. The brand new Covid ward within the outdated constructing turned practical from Monday.
“In a day or two, we will likely be ready to start out the dialysis unit,” hospital superintendent Sishir Naskar advised TOI. The ICU would begin functioning with the hospital’s present 18 ventilators and the 15 new ones which have already arrived. Ten medical officers are being educated to deal with the machines.
The hospital was lately designated as one of many 4 Covid hospitals within the metropolis. The state well being division has plans to equip M R Bangur with 1,100 beds for Covid-19 remedy. A ground of the burns unit is being developed to deal with essential sufferers. Round 200 sufferers are at the moment admitted within the hospital, together with these whose check outcomes are awaited.
Abhijit Chowdhury, member of the state’s knowledgeable committee overseeing Bengal’s battle in opposition to the outbreak and convenor of world advisory board chargeable for drawing up the state’s Covid-19 response, visited the hospital on Monday. “The fundamental goal was to coordinate the association and assist the workers members gear up for the disaster administration. We appraised them of the bottom actuality and cleared sure confusions,” Chowdhury advised TOI.
“In a day or two, we will likely be ready to start out the dialysis unit,” hospital superintendent Sishir Naskar advised TOI. The ICU would begin functioning with the hospital’s present 18 ventilators and the 15 new ones which have already arrived. Ten medical officers are being educated to deal with the machines.
The hospital was lately designated as one of many 4 Covid hospitals within the metropolis. The state well being division has plans to equip M R Bangur with 1,100 beds for Covid-19 remedy. A ground of the burns unit is being developed to deal with essential sufferers. Round 200 sufferers are at the moment admitted within the hospital, together with these whose check outcomes are awaited.
Abhijit Chowdhury, member of the state’s knowledgeable committee overseeing Bengal’s battle in opposition to the outbreak and convenor of world advisory board chargeable for drawing up the state’s Covid-19 response, visited the hospital on Monday. “The fundamental goal was to coordinate the association and assist the workers members gear up for the disaster administration. We appraised them of the bottom actuality and cleared sure confusions,” Chowdhury advised TOI.
