Nurse injured by glass shards falling off hosp’s exterior panel
The injured nurse is being taken to hospital for treatmentVadodara: A pregnant nurse working at the GMERS Gotri Hospital had a narrow escape when shards of glass fell on her from a panel on the seventh floor. The panel had come off due to heavy winds triggered by the cyclone.
The incident took place when the nurse was passing on the road below a building of the hospital. The glass panels of the building had started coming loose due to heavy winds. Some of these fell inside a ward while the remaining came crashing down on the ground below, on the nurse. She was rushed to the casualty department of the hospital and given first aid.
Detailed investigations were conducted on the nurse to ensure that she did not have any serious injuries as she was pregnant too.
The patients were shifted just in time by staffers treating them. The glass panels fell not only on the outside, but even inside the ward near the beds where the patients were sleeping.
Rao said that engineers of the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) were asked to inspect the building as well as the dome structure tfor safety purposes. The hospial had 484 patients on Wednesday afternoon including 162 on ventilators or BIPAP machines as well as 143 on non-rebreather masks requiring high quantity of oxygen.
BAPS facility vacated in time
A couple of days back, the administration took the decision to move 145 patients from the Yajnapurush Sabha Mandap in the BAPS Swaminarayan campus in Atladara. The move seems to have saved a major panic situation as rain water had entered the place on Wednesday.
Oxygen refilling continues in ground
Refilling of oxygen cylinders in Navlakhi Ground continued unhindered despite tin sheets of an enclosure started flying away along with the part of a tent erected there. The facility has been started to ensure that hospitals get liquid oxygen at a short distance.
The incident took place when the nurse was passing on the road below a building of the hospital. The glass panels of the building had started coming loose due to heavy winds. Some of these fell inside a ward while the remaining came crashing down on the ground below, on the nurse. She was rushed to the casualty department of the hospital and given first aid.
Detailed investigations were conducted on the nurse to ensure that she did not have any serious injuries as she was pregnant too.
The ward that had a glass panel on one side instead of a wall, was being used to keep Covid-19 patients. Officer on special duty for Covid-19 Vinod Rao said that the ward had 43 patients who were shifted to other wards in the hospital. Movement was also restricted in the areas where there were glass panels on the building.
The patients were shifted just in time by staffers treating them. The glass panels fell not only on the outside, but even inside the ward near the beds where the patients were sleeping.
Rao said that engineers of the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) were asked to inspect the building as well as the dome structure tfor safety purposes. The hospial had 484 patients on Wednesday afternoon including 162 on ventilators or BIPAP machines as well as 143 on non-rebreather masks requiring high quantity of oxygen.
BAPS facility vacated in time
A couple of days back, the administration took the decision to move 145 patients from the Yajnapurush Sabha Mandap in the BAPS Swaminarayan campus in Atladara. The move seems to have saved a major panic situation as rain water had entered the place on Wednesday.
Oxygen refilling continues in ground
Refilling of oxygen cylinders in Navlakhi Ground continued unhindered despite tin sheets of an enclosure started flying away along with the part of a tent erected there. The facility has been started to ensure that hospitals get liquid oxygen at a short distance.
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