DINDIGUL
Dindigul government headquarters hospital would have more infrastructure and additional wards to provide better service. A proposal at an estimated cost of ₹75 lakh had been sent to the government for upgrading facilities, said Joint Director of Health Service Malathi Prakash on Wednesday.
Talking to press persons here, she said that the GH had become a 450-bedded hospital providing excellent secondary care. It had been upgraded on a par with medical college hospital to treat almost all diseases. But bed occupancy in wards had touched 103%. An occupancy rate of 80% was ideal because reservation of 20% of beds would help the hospital in handling emergency cases, she added.
A 200-bedded inpatient ward and 48-bedded paediatric ward were ready for occupation and they would be thrown open shortly. With the opening of additional wards, the GH would become a 700-bedded hospital, she said.
An exclusive building for housing the CT scan was also ready. She said the hospital was now handling 17 to 20 deliveries a day, of which eight were in the Caesarean section, and treating 450 inpatients.
In addition, it had a blood separation unit and its breast milk bank stored 30 litres of milk, feeding several newborn babies.
For tertiary care, specialists from Theni Medical College Hospital and Madurai Government Rajaji Hospital were visiting the GH here twice a week to handle cardiac and nephrology cases.
Excels in delivery
The Dindigul GH was ranked number one in the State in institutional delivery and complicated maternity care. It had admitted 7,372 maternity cases between April 2016 and February 2017, of which 6,002 were complicated deliveries. It also topped in the State in the number of scans done during night hours for obstetric cases. It had offered the service to 2,530 women.
With availability of all essential services, including blood bank, it had been offering excellent maternity and neo- natal care, she added.
