Patna. An emergency of 350 beds will be made in the Health Committee premises separately from the IGIMS campus. The Health Department has approved this proposal, soon the department will issue a notification regarding this. At present IGIMS has 40 emergency beds for patients. Where 40 patients are not admitted every day due to non-availability of beds and they have to go to other hospitals for treatment, but after the new emergency starts, the patients will not face any problem. Patients will be able to be admitted easily.
Patients will start getting facilities in new emergencies from 2024.
Patients will be able to be admitted in the new emergency from 2024. In the new change, after the patient is admitted, he will be kept in the same building for treatment. Beds will be increased in the ICU and Red Zone in the new building for the patients, from where the patients, after their recovery, will be removed from the emergency and sent to the ward during treatment.
Now this problem occurs in emergency
Currently, there are a total of 40 beds in emergency, in which 15 to 20 patients are admitted every day. In this, 16 patients are registered in Yellow Zone, 16 in AB Ward, eight in T Zone and five in Trauma Ward. At the same time, T zone has eight beds.
condition of ICU
The total number of ICU is 60. In which there are 15 beds in MICU, eight beds in SICU, nine in CCM ICU, 14 beds in IICU and 13 beds in Red Zone ICU. Due to shortage of beds, even the most serious patients are not able to get ICU on time.
what do officials say
Dr. Manish Mandal, MS of IGIMS said that the number of beds in IGIMS Emergency is still less. To increase the number of beds, IGIMS had sent a proposal to the Health Department, after which the Department held a meeting and verbally approved the creation of an emergency of 350 beds in the District Health Committee Complex. Soon, an order regarding this will be issued at the departmental level.
Free medicine and testing facility will start soon in IGIMS
Patients of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS), a highly specialized medical institute of the state government, will start getting the benefit of free medicines and testing facilities. After the Cabinet approved free medicines and tests, the Health Department has now started the process regarding this. The first round of high level meeting regarding this has been completed in the Health Department. Now again further action will be taken by the department to provide facilities to the patients.
Allocation of about Rs 400 crore for medicines and equipment
The government believes that an allocation of around Rs 400 crore is given for medicines and equipment across the state. In such a situation, there is no dearth of funds in providing medicines and testing facilities to the patients undergoing treatment at IGIMS. Once the services are examined in all respects. Then patients will start getting this facility. The government has expressed its commitment through the cabinet to provide free medicines and testing services to the public at IGIMS. The department is busy in completing this.
Jeevika Didi’s kitchen building will be built in four sub-divisional hospitals
The government will construct new buildings in four sub-divisional hospitals of Bihar to start Jeevika Didi’s kitchen. Under the MOU signed with the Rural Livelihood Group, a total of four sub-divisional hospitals of Samastipur and Rohtas districts have been selected for this scheme. 89 lakh has also been released to do this work on priority. Jeevika Didi’s Kitchen Scheme was started in 2018 by the Health Department to provide nutritious and pure food to the patients admitted in Sadar Hospital, Sub-Divisional Hospital as well as all Medical College Hospitals. Jeevika Didi’s kitchen has also been started in most of the sadar hospitals as well as medical college hospitals.
Now in sub-divisional level hospitals
Now livelihood kitchens are being started in sub-divisional level hospitals. A proposal was received from Bihar Health Services Infrastructure Corporation to start Jeevika Didi’s Kitchen in two sub-divisional hospitals each of Samastipur and Rohtas Health Department. Now kitchen buildings will be constructed in Sub-Divisional Hospital Shahpur Patori and Sub-Divisional Hospital Pusa Samastipur as well as Sub-Divisional Hospital Dehri on Son in Rohtas and Sub-Divisional Hospital Vikramganj. One hospital is estimated to cost Rs 20.93 lakh to Rs 23.67 lakh. The construction work of kitchen buildings in the respective hospitals is likely to be completed within two months.