Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 17: The authorities at the Bone and Joints Hospital have failed to put in use the essential Intensive Care Unit which was donated by the Mother Helpage Worldwide (MHW) late last year.
The ICU equipment donated to the hospital include a high-tech ventilator, Air Compressor, Bloodgas Analyser with electrolyte, Monitor and a Syringe infusion pump, that have been imported from Europe.
Being the only Trauma Hospital of the Valley, the hospital needs such equipment as it remains overloaded with patients.
The hospital receives hundreds of patients in a month who suffer trauma and critical fractures due to increasing road accidents, falls and violent incidents.
The ventilator is designed to mechanically move breathable air into and out of the lungs. This provides the mechanism of breathing for a patient who is physically unable to breathe or is breathing insufficiently.
“The equipment could have saved essential lives had the hospital administrators utilized it since it was donated to the hospital,” said a patient.
MHW, a disaster response group, was founded in 1994 at Anantnag by Capt (Dr) Sohail Nasti, who is the incumbent CEO and today it works in 20 countries and has donated this essential ICU keeping in view the increasing trauma patients in the Valley.
Medical Superintendent, Bone and Joints Hospital Dr Shabir Ahmad Dar, told Excelsior the hospital lacked space to accommodate and fit the equipment donated to the hospital by Mother Helpage.
Dr Dar said a new building has been built which will be thrown open soon. “We will fit the ICU unit in the building and utilize it for patient-care,” he said.
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