Four dedicated Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds have been added in Neurosurgery ward of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Raipur with additional state of the art facilities. Professor Dr Nitin M Nagarkar, Director of AIIMS inaugurated the new ICU ward in the department. The capacity has been enhanced for better care of critical patient’s. ICU department is now ready to serve the severely ill patients with new facilities. Dr Anil K Sharma, Head of the Department of Neurosurgery informed that new ICU beds will have five ventilators, 10 cardiac monitors, and 6 DVT pumps along with ECG facility in the department. The department has witnessed a surge in patients since last year. Patients suffering from brain tumour, brain haemorrhage, spinal fixation, and frontal hematoma are major cases the department is dealing with. On an average 40 patients visit Out Patient Department (OPD) on a daily basis. Some of them need urgent surgery. New Facility will be helpful to provide much-needed support to the patients. The department already has 33 beds in the ward. Dr Prashant, Dr Nitish Nayak, Dr Surendra and Dr Charandeep were also present during the inauguration programme.
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Delhi government to buy 1,200 bypass machines immediately, CM Arvind Kejriwal gave instructions
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has instructed to immediately purchase 1,200 bypass machines for new ICU beds in the national capital amid the fast growing cases of Kovid-19. An official gave this information on Tuesday. The official said that with the introduction of these machines, new ICU beds will be immediately usable. The official said that 1,200 bypass machines will be purchased immediately from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
On Monday, Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain had attributed the pollution caused by burning stubble to the death rate due to Kovid-19 and hoped that the situation would improve in the next two to three weeks. On Monday, 4,454 new cases of Corona virus infection were reported in Delhi, while the death toll increased to 8,512 after the death of 121 more infected people.