Unutilised for a year, new building at Lady Hardinge hospital finally opens its doors
The hospital has also procured a New Medical Gas Pipeline System along with a gas pipeline connected to 930 beds.
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It was lying unutilised for a year after it was inaugurated (Express File Photo) Lying unutilised for a year after it was inaugurated, the new building at Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC) has finally been made functional. Built as part of a project worth Rs 703 crore and completed two years ago, the building has two blocks — one for its In-Patient Department (IPD) and the other housing the Emergency, Medicine and Accident wards — that are connected by a ramp.
According to Medical Director Dr Subhash Giri, except for the gynecology department, all departments have been shifted to the new building.
He said the Accident and Emergency block has 30 beds for emergency cases, 20 beds for observation, 8 beds for triage, and 6 ICU beds. Two emergency operation theatres have also been added, along with 30 beds that are allotted to Medicine, Surgery and Orthopaedics departments.
The IPD Block has 600 beds, out of which 240 each have been added to Medicine and Surgery departments, and 120 beds to the Orthopaedics department.
Over the last six to seven months, all clinics and in-patient services at LHMC have moved to two seven-storey blocks that were inaugurated by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya last year. Earlier, the hospital functioned out of a hundred-year-old dilapidated building with narrow, crowded corridors. With the new blocks, all patient services — consultation, diagnostics, and pharmacy — will be under one roof. The blocks also have wide corridors with large waiting areas, and are centrally air-conditioned.
“The Central lab at the IPD has several facilities — biochemical, hormonal, genetic disorder, haematology, bio-molecular and pathological tests; emergency ultrasound; a digital 1000MA machine; and a new MRI machine worth Rs 1 crore,” said Dr Giri, adding that Brachytherapy, a type of radiotherapy used to treat certain types of cancer and other conditions, is also available.
Dr Giri said that earlier, only OPD-based treatment was available for cancer patients, but a Linac Machine will be made available in some time.
The hospital has also procured a New Medical Gas Pipeline System along with a gas pipeline connected to 930 beds. 30 KL LMO tanks have been installed for uninterrupted oxygen supply to more than 900 beds.
The two hospitals associated with the college, Sucheta Kriplani and Kalawati Saran, see around 3,000-4,000 patients in the outpatient clinics daily. LHMC sees patients mostly from Central Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and UP.
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