JAIPUR: While the city is grappling with spurt in Covid cases, Sawai Man Singh Medical College has developed RUHS Hospital into a fully equipped
dedicated Covid facility. A fleet of 350 nursing staff and three units of medicine department have been deployed by the SMS Medical College for taking care of
Covid patients.
After RUHS Hospital was handed over to SMS Medical College in mid-September, new facilities have been added along with increasing bed capacity from 300 to 1,200.
While strengthening facilities at RUHS, SMS Medical College has launched a first-of-its-kind initiative of installing
oxygen points at wheelchairs to provide immediate oxygen to Covid patients reaching in emergency with breathing difficulties.
“We have installed 30 oxygen points with wheelchairs and fowler bed in emergency of RUHS to oxygenate every patient within a minute. Nowhere is such emergency arrival arrangements available with 30 oxygen points,” said Dr
Sudhir Bhandari, principal and controller, SMS Medical College.
He said, “150 ventilated beds and another 70-bedded ICU is also starting soon.”
Apart from three medicine units, SMS Medical College has also deployed a fleet of anesthesia specialists and doctors of different specialities.
Moreover, RUHS hospital is developing its oxygen generation plant and a liquid oxygen plant. “The liquid oxygen plant will soon become operational. We are waiting for some permissions required for it. The requirement of oxygen for Covid patients’ treatment has gone up. We need 1,500 oxygen cylinders daily. The requirement was 450 cylinders a month ago,” said Dr Ajit Singh, medical superintendent, RUHS Hospital.
SMS Medical College is taking care of patients of three dedicated Covid hospitals including RUHS, Jaipuria and ESI Hospital, having a collective capacity of 1,700 beds approximately.
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Work done at dedicated Covid RUHS Hospital since SMS Medical College took over it in mid-September
1. Installation of 30 oxygen points with wheelchairs and fowler bed in the emergency of the hospital to oxygenate every patient within a minute
2. Increased beds from 300 to 1,200
3. Installation of TVs & water coolers in every floor
4. Increase in oxygen points in ICU beds. 150 ventilated beds and another 70 beaded ICU starting soon
5. Proactive treatment with top drugs like remdesivir, tocilizumab, plasma therapy and standard of care
absolutely free6. Facilities for latest blood test like cytokine markers
7. Big faculties of medicine, anaesthesia, pediatrics & critical care with best of nursing care & logistic facilities like food
8. Patient addressal system on each floor
9. Coffee counter and rasoi in progress
10. Maintenance of toilets by Sulabh agency