Kolkata: MR Bangur Hospital dialysis unit, ICU ready for Covid-19 patients

Ajanta Chakraborty | TNN | Updated: Apr 14, 2020, 07:12 IST

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KOLKATA: MR Bangur Hospital’s ICU and the dialysis unit for Covid-19 patients are all set to start functioning. The new Covid ward in the old building became functional from Monday.
“In a day or two, we will be in a position to start the dialysis unit,” hospital superintendent Sishir Naskar told TOI. The ICU would start functioning with the hospital’s existing 18 ventilators and the 15 new ones that have already arrived. Ten medical officers are being trained to handle the machines.
The hospital was recently designated as one of the four Covid hospitals in the city. The state health department has plans to equip M R Bangur with 1,100 beds for Covid-19 treatment. A floor of the burns unit is being developed to handle critical patients. Around 200 patients are currently admitted in the hospital, including those whose test results are awaited.
Abhijit Chowdhury, member of the state’s expert committee overseeing Bengal’s fight against the outbreak and convenor of global advisory board responsible for drawing up the state’s Covid-19 response, visited the hospital on Monday. “The basic objective was to coordinate the arrangement and help the staff members gear up for the crisis management. We appraised them of the ground reality and cleared certain confusions,” Chowdhury told TOI.