Jammu and Kashmir: LG Manoj Sinha inaugurates DRDO's 500-bedCovid Hospital

Of the total 500 beds here at Bhagwati Nagar Centre, 125 would be Intensive Care Unit(ICU) beds, while others would be a set of covid-beds with 24 hours oxygen facility. 

The hospital would be equipped with Ventilators, Monitors, in-house Pharmacy, DiagnosticFacility, X Ray and CT Scan facility, an official statement said. 

“I am grateful to Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Home Minister AmitShah and Hon’ble Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for extending all possible assistanceto J&K,” the Lt Governor said. 

Speaking on the management of ongoing pandemic and future challenges, the LtGovernor observed that the DRDO hospital, with efficient mechanism will play animportant role in adding to the government’s efforts in the fight against Covid pandemic. 

“I must congratulate and appreciate Chairman, DRDO Dr. G Satheesh Reddy and hisentire team working round-the-clock to build this well-equipped medical facility inrecord time”, the Lt Governor added.

 “Our health infrastructure in Jammu and other areas of the division continues to be thebackbone of healthcare services. This hospital too is expected to become fullyoperational in 3-4 days, after trial run of all the facilities,” he said.

 Underlining the importance of providing best healthcare services to the people,especially those living in remote areas, the Lt Governor remarked that the robust healthinfrastructure in Jammu division with decentralized community health system in theform of Panchayat Covid Care Centres has an extensive outreach even in several farflung locales. 

“We have also devised an effective and rapid response system to quicklymobilize the physical and human resources within healthcare delivery apparatus.”“We all, as society must fight the pandemic together and recalibrate our priorities givingutmost importance to the Covid protocol and vaccination,” he said, adding that “I urgeevery citizen of J&K to follow Covid Appropriate Behaviour for weeks & months tocome to effectively tackle this health crisis.”

Meanwhile, the Lt Governor went around the various sections of the newly establishedHospital including Patient’s block, ICU ward, General wards, Pharmacy, wherein, heinspected and enquired about the facilities available for the patients. 

He directed the health functionaries to ensure strict compliance of the hospital referralpolicy for effective patient care management. 

It was informed that all the Information and Record would be maintained throughHospital Management Software for effective management of Hospital’s functioning. 

WiFi facility, water Supply with RO facility, camera surveillance with all safety norms andother essential facilities would be extended to the patients.Along with Jugal Kishore Sharma, Member Parliament; Chander Mohan Gupta, Mayor,Jammu Municipal Corporation and Bharat Bhushan, DDC Chairperson Jammu,prominent among others present on the occasion were Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Advisor toLt Governor; BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Atal Dulloo, FinancialCommissioner, Health & Medical Education Department; Nitishwar Kumar, PrincipalSecretary to the Lt Governor; Dr. Raghav Langer, Divisional Commissioner Jammu; Dr.Shashi Sudhan Sharma, Principal & Dean GMC & AH’s Jammu; Anshul Garg, Deputy Commissioner Jammu; Choudhary Mohammad Yasin, Mission Director, NHM and Dr.Renu Sharma, Director Health Services Jammu.DRDO Officers present were Dr. Lokesh Kumar Sinha, Director DGRE, Dr. AnilKhurana, Chief Engineer R&D North and Sh. Harpreet Singh, Senior AdministrativeOfficer TBRL.