PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Haldwani
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU)- set up at the Base Hospital in Haldwani at a cost of about Rs two crore- has started functioning from Thursday. The hospital sources said that the ICU has nine beds with modern machines installed in the unit. The people of the Kumaon region as a whole are both happy and relieved with the fulfilment of their longstanding demand. They say that the serious patients will no longer have to throng private facilities or higher centres for proper and emergency care. Notably, critically ill patients from far-flung mountainous areas come to the Base Hospital for treatment.
The Nainital district magistrate, Lalit Mohan Rayal inaugurated the ICU.
“Specialist doctors and experienced nursing staff have been deployed in this ICU which will function 24 hours a day,” he said.
Addressing the inaugural programme, the mayor, Haldwani Municipal Corporation, Gajraj Singh Bisht said that the ICU at Base Hospital would immensely benefit the locals, particularly the economically unprivileged people. “The State government is going all-out to revamp the health sector,” he added.
The chief medical officer, Dr Harish Chandra Pant informed that four anaesthetists and four experienced nursing staff have been deployed in the ICU. “In addition to this, three surgeons and three physicians will be deployed on a rotational basis. We are sure that the ICU installation at this important State-run health facility will improve health facilities for the whole region,” he added.
