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| Major equipment upgradation in Srinagar medical institute | | | EARLY TIMES
Jammu, Sep 5: A multi-crore project for equipping 21 faculties in the Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar with sophisticated equipments and apparatus has been given sanction by the Government.
Institute sources said that a survey conducted by the senior faculty members and the Administrative wing had found that several departments lacked a number of equipments and gadgets which had affected patient treatment and surgeries.
The sources said that in the departments of Radio Diagnosis and pediatric surgery the project envisaged installation of 300 MA X-Ray machines, Video Bronchoscope, computerized Radiography system for X-ray machines, Cystoscope etc.
As far as the general medicines are concerned the authorities have decided to install therapeutic video Bronchoscoy system, Polysomnography and pulmonary function test.
Sources said that during the last 20 years incidence of heart and kidney ailments including renal failure have increased. Consequently, major hospitals are crowded with
patients demanding treatment for various ailments.
Accordingly the Institute authorities have decided to install in its Nephrology department 14 dialysis chairs, automatic dialyzer reprocessing system, dialysis machine with single water treatment plant, continues renal replacement therapy, PD cycler.
The departments of gastroenterology and endocrinology have been selected for major up-gradation as far as last equipments and gadgets are concerned. Under the project Endo ultrasound, pediatric video endoscopy system, video upper GI endoscope portable ultrasound machines were being installed.
The latest reports had revealed that in the absence of sophisticated equipments and gadgets number of patients in the state had been seen visiting the AIIMS, New Delhi, PGI, Chandigarh and other top private hospitals in Delhi for treatment and surgeries. This situation had defeated the purpose for which the institute had been built.
When the plan for the institute had been conceived about 36 years ago it had been made public that the basic purpose behind the project was to ensure that people needing treatment and surgeries got proper care in the institute and were not forced to visit Delhi,Mumbai or Chandigarh for the same purpose.
Institute officials said that up-gradation of facilities for patient care was a regular process in the Institute. They said militancy related violence in Kashmir had resulted not only in the brain drain in the shape of senior doctors finding jobs outside the valley but also in a situation in which talented doctors belonging to areas outside the state accepting to work in Srinagar.
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