Mahila chikitsalaya gets more facilities for maternal care & high-risk women

Jaipur: The Mahila Chikitsalaya at Sanganeri Gate has strengthened its maternal care services in critical care for high risk women. Health minister Parsadi Lal Meena on Wednesday inaugurated an ICU and a high dependency unit (HDU) where a pregnant woman with complications can give birth to baby and, at the same time, avail ICU facility in an adjacent room.
A third room has been developed as a high dependency unit where patients can be cared for more extensively than at a normal ward, not to the point of intensive care. The facility has been developed to reduce transit time of shifting patients from labour room to ICU and from ICU to high dependency unit.
While inaugurating the new facilities at the hospital, the health minister said, “In the past four years, the government has made phenomenal progress in basic medical services in the last 4 years. Be it SMS, RUHS, Zanana, JK Lon or Mahila Chikitsalaya, facilities have improved drastically. The standard of treatment has improved in government hospitals with new equipment and facilities. Patients are now choosing government hospitals for treatment. After making OPD and IPD facilities free, the patients’ footfall has increased and with that the facilities have also been improved.”
He said that the PM had in Gujarat recently talked about Ayushman Bharat schemes under which patients get Rs5 lakh coverage, but here the state government is providing Rs10 lakh coverage and free medicines, free tests and OPD and IPD facilities. “CM had appealed to the PM to implement schemes like Chiranjeevi Swasthya Bima Yojna so that just like patients are getting treatment, people in other states can also avail its benefit,” he said.
Besides, he said that in the upcoming state assembly session, the state government will table the Right to Health Bill.
At Mahila Chikitsalaya, the number of ICU beds have also been increased with 12 new ICU beds. “Earlier, we had to shift the patients (pregnant women post-delivery) requiring critical care to SMS hospital since we did not have such facilities. During transit, the patients were always at risk. Now, we have a 20 bedded ICU, which is already functional and a new 12-bedded ICU has been inaugurated. Besides, an 8-bedded HDU has also been inaugurated for shifting the patients from ICU who still require better monitoring than in wards,” said Dr Asha Verma, superintendent, Mahila Chikitsalaya.
Along with this, a new septic labor room of 5 beds will be dedicated for serious patients. “With new ICU beds, the facilities at the hospital have been strengthened further. Here patients, not only from Jaipur but also from other districts come for treatment. A lot of them are high risk pregnancies. The new labour room and ICU are adjacent to ensure that such women get critical care without losing much time in transit,” said Dr Shalini Rathore, senior medical officer (gynecology), at the hospital.