Health Minister C. Vijaya Baskar flagged off the district’s first neo-natal ambulance (108) in the presence of the Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development, S. P. Velumani, on Saturday.
The ambulance would be stationed at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital’s (CMCH) neo-natal intensive care unit. Equipped with state-of-the-art instruments and staffed with a specially-trained physician, it would be used for inter-facility transfer (IFT) of new-borns in and around Coimbatore region. IFT refers to the shifting of a patient from a health centre to another one with the requisite equipment to treat the patient.
The district also got two ambulances, which have higher power and better manoeuvrability.
They would be deployed at Valparai region, which had hilly terrain.
S. Revwathy, CMCH Dean, S. Somasundaram, Deputy Director of Health Services, Dawood Fathima, Joint Director, Medical and Rural Services, George Kenneth, District Manager of Coimbatore, and other Government and hospital officials took part in the function.
The Health Minister told reporters that two additional doctors would soon be posted to the CMCH’s Department of Cardiology.
He also inspected the construction of Amma Unnavagam on the CMCH campus.
