ICU facility in Gurgaon General Hospital

by Haryananewswire (Balbir)

CHANDIGARH, MAY 22

The general hospital in Gurgaon  now has the facility of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), which is the first of its kind in any government hospital in Haryana. This is in addition to many other  modern facilities added to this hospital for treatment of patients

While stating this today,a spokesman of Health Department said that  with the setting up of the ICU, a long standing demand of the people of the  cyber city  has been fulfilled. He said that ICU has started functioning on the first floor of the hospital and it has facility of artificial respirator, ventilator, cardiac monitor  to treat serious patients. As of now  six beds have been placed in the ICU and three patients are under treatment. Out of these, one patient was bitten by Black Cobra snake and he remained unconscious for five days. His life was saved in this unit due to ventilator.

He said that those suffering from ailments   and other fatal diseases would get better treatment in the ICU where doctors and specialists would be available round- the- clock. Dr Garg said that for this purpose, four doctors, four staff nurses and three specialists have been deputed at the ICU. He said that apart from the ICU, many   modern health care facilities have been introduced in the general hospital  as a result of which the patients would not have to spend huge funds for treatment in private hospitals  as in general hospital, these facilities would be made available to the patients free of cost.

        He said that now the facility of NICU for the new borns have also been started in Gurgaon general hospital. The children born premature would be kept in the Incubator which being a costly facility, the poor patients were not able to afford this in private hospitals. At General Hospital, it would be made available free of cost.

         He said that a lift has also been installed in the General Hospital and it would be run on trial within a couple of days. He said that now the general hospital is also equipped with FECO surgery of the eye and Computer Arm for orthopedics patients. The orthopedic surgeon would now be able to treat the fractured arm or leg only by seeing it on computer screen and no X-Ray was required. Similarly, the requirement of X-Ray film for tooth was also dispensed with because the Dental ward was equipped with facility of Digital X-Ray. The Dental Surgeon could now see the image on the screen of computer by just placing the equipment near the tooth and it could be saved there. He said that a new machine for the surgery of retina of the eye has been sanctioned which would be installed in a few days. The Gurgaon general hospital is the only government hospital at district level to have MRI facility and six to eight MRIs were being done daily. He said that EMG facility for treatment of nerves has also been stated. Not only this, about 350 chairs and five water coolers have been provided for the patients coming to the general hospital, he added.