Full-fledged superspecialty services in cardiology and trauma care will soon become a reality at he District General Hospital with the inauguration of construction work to house the Cathlab facilities.
The hospital had been running OP services in cardiology for the past six months without any other facility or emergency care.
The General Hospital will also have a new facility termed Bhumika to deal with problems of women and children who had met with abuse. Besides, the ongoing palliative care would also get a new building, the construction for which will begin on Thursday.
Health Minister V. S. Sivakumar will inaugurate the construction of these facilities at a function organised to handover the renewed certificate of National Accreditation Board of Hospitals and Healthcare providers (NABH).
The District General Hospital got its accreditation renewed for maintaining the quality care and services it provides to patients. The 783-bed hospital, largest in the State, had in 2011 achieved the rare status of being the first hospital in the State and perhaps among the largest hospital in the public sector across the country to have received quality accreditation.
The hospital had retained its status by following 102 parameters and 636 rules as directed by the Quality Council of India (QCI).
The hospital authorities said that the achievement has helped honour the patients’ rights in getting standard services. There are 20 committees in the hospital to check the quality of services in various areas. These committee gives a review report to the QCI once in three months.
A modern medical records library, power laundry, making medicines available to all patients with local purchase facility, protocol for all available treatments, waste management facility, calibration of the instruments and dietary kitchen are among some of the focus areas that are lacking in other government hospitals.
