NOIDA: The
health department has asked the children’s hospital in Sector 30 to provide free of cost eye-testing to prematurely born children having retinopathy, apart from a few other treatments.
Chief medical officer Anurag Bhargava told TOI that the health department had asked the hospital to also provide
cataract surgery to adult patients free of cost and also eye-tests for children suffering with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) which leads to bleeding or scarring in the eyes.
While the hospital will bring the proposal to provide free of cost cataract operations to adults in their general body meeting slated for September, it has said that eyes of premature children will be tested free of cost as it was covered under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) of the Union government.
The RBSK aims at early identification and intervention for children suffering from defects at birth, diseases, development delays including disability.
Meanwhile, the district is set to get two new advanced life support (ALS) ambulances. Under the Union government’s scheme, two ambulances each will be provided to all the districts of UP after the launch of the new
ALS ambulances. As of now, there are only two ALS ambulances in the district which remain parked at the district hospital leading to frequent complaints from patients about their non-availability. The new ambulances will have with necessary equipment like ventilator, multipara monitor, fetal doppler, automated external defibrillator, etc and would be more spacious than the existing ambulances.
While women patients post their delivery and children below one year of age are given priority in transportation by ALS to their residences and a pick-up as well, the ambulances will also drop patients to other hospitals in Delhi or Meerut in case of emergency.
There are 17 ambulances in the 102 service and nine ambulances under the 108 service in the district.
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