Port Blair, 15 August 2024:
ANIIMS has upgraded MICU in GBPH with motorized beds, defibrillator, cardiac multi-para monitors, suction machines, portable ECG machines and X- ray machine to support the patients in case of need of intensive care.
The newly renovated and upgraded Intensive Care Unit at GB Pant Hospital was inaugurated by the Chief Secretary, A&N Administration, Shri Keshav Chandra, IAS, today by cutting the ribbon and unveiling the plaque in the presence of Commissioner-cum-Secretary, A&N Administration, Smt. Nandini Paliwal, IAS, Secretary(Health)/MD-NHM, Dr. Anil Agarwal, Director, ANIIMS, Dr. Pragya Sharma, Director, Health Services, Dr. Suja Antony, MS, i/c, GBPH, Dr. MK Saha, Vice President, Cluster Head, HDFC, Shri Shanmugam, Shri Sakit Jha from Doctors for You, NGO, senior doctors and the medical fraternity. The MICU has been renovated with the support of HDFC Bank and Doctors for You, an NGO under their CSR initiatives.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Secretary congratulated the health fraternity for achieving this milestone. He encouraged the doctors and the management to continue doing the good work in caring for the patients and not to be discouraged by the situation that comes their way. He also exhorted them to work with the motto of providing good services to the needy people with the available health care facilities.
Appreciating the services being provided by doctors, the Chief Secretary remarked that doctors serving here must be lauded for their dedication and professionalism as they chose to serve in a remote place like A&N Islands. Chief Secretary further stated that the rate and speed at which the hospital is being upgraded and renovated, the standard of services being provided and the availability of facilities here are no less than any hospital in the mainland. He also congratulated HDFC and Doctors for You for their collaboration in improving the health care facility here at GB Pant Hospital and remarked that this collaborative efforts should continue in the years to come as well, so that quality health care services can be provided to the people of the Island.
Earlier, Dr. Pragya Sharma welcomed the gathering and extended gratitude to the Administration for the constant guidance and support. She also thanked HDFC and Doctors for You for their collaboration with GBPH in upgrading the facilities in the ICU, which will further enhance patient care being provided here.
Proposing the vote of thanks, Dr. MK Saha extended his gratitude to the A&N Administration for its fervent support and guidance. He also thanked the representatives from HDFC Bank and Doctors for You for their assistance and collaborative efforts in improving the Health facilities here in GB Pant Hospital.
The representatives from HDFC, Shri Shanmugam and Doctors for You, Shri Sakit Jha also spoke on the occasion, expressing their happiness in being able to collaborate and extend support in providing the required health care facility to GB Pant Hospital.
The MICU is a heart of any hospital where critically ill patients requiring intensive care are treated. GBPH has 11 bedded MICU which was last renovated in 2004. ANIIMS has now renovated and refurbished the MICU and equipped it with State of Art life saving machines and equipment. All the beds in MICU are motorized and operated by remote control. The MICU has high end machines to monitor the heart activity attached to each bed and other portable machines like blood gas analyzer, X-ray and ECG to enable bedside investigations. All the beds of MICU are supported with centralized oxygen pipeline, ventilators and bi pap machine for oxygen support. The initiative has been supported financially by HDFC bank under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), in collaboration with NGO, Doctors For You (DFY) who have extended their technical support for logistics and other arrangements for providing the machines and equipment to the hospital.
Only extremely sick patients who need intensive care and management are treated in MICU; sterility, hygiene and infection control procedures of MICU are critical to define the success rate of any ICU, as to how many patients will recover from the episode of critical illness. Thus minimum number of visitors and attendants of the patients in the hospital including MICU is extremely essential to maintain high standards of care, strict infection control and better chances of patient survival.
As of now, only one attendant per patient is allowed in all the areas of hospital and only for extremely sick patients in ICU areas. Soon after the MICU of GBPH is able to maintain the adequate patient nurse ratio, the access of the MICU to attendants will be controlled with restricted visiting hours.
