The district administration launched a massive clean-up operation of the Government General Hospital here on Wednesday. The 72-hour exercise, known as ‘Operation GGH’, will sanitise the largest teaching and referral hospital in the State.
District Collector Kantilal Dande is leading the operation, in which more than 500 government employees, under the supervision of 50 department heads, are taking part.
The entire hospital premises, a mix of old and new structures, vast open spaces and bushy trees, have been divided into 50 sectors, with an officer heading each sector. The Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) has pressed 200 sanitary personnel into service.
Fire and Emergency Department has also been roped in to flush out waste material clogging up drains.
The operation began at 7 a.m., with the Collector holding a meeting with all department heads at Susrutha Hall. He gave each officer a sheet on which they identified the infrastructure deficiencies at the hospital. Officers also have to rate the wards on the quality of the three basic needs of drinking water, continuous power and sanitation.
“Our priority is to ensure that all drains are unclogged, old and dilapidated structures pulled down and sanitation improved. . Later, we will be giving a face-lift to the hospital. It will take three months to transform the hospital,” the Collector told the officers. The day began with sanitary personnel cleaning up the open spaces. Armed with brooms and brushes, the they began work. A wall separating the old and new enclosures was pulled down, while the engineering wing was told to identify old structures. “
We have pulled down several old structures like old injection room near the OP block room, old medical officers lounge near the oncology department, old store rooms, old mortuary and old sheds,” Executive Engineer of AP Medical Services and Infrastructure Development Corporation (APMSIDC) Y. Ashok said.
The APMSIDC will be the nodal agency in carrying out the works, and it has already identified other old structures, like lumbar rooms in the wards.
