Delhi Govt issues 35 ventilators to Lok Nayak but hospital fails to install them
Delhi government’s plan to install 125 ventilators in city hospitals has still not been implemented leaving patients with no other choice but to the non reliable ambu-bags, a device used for manual ventilation in many cases.
Lok Nayak Hospital, one of Delhi government’s biggest hospitals, was given 35 ventilators, but it has failed to install many of these, sources in the hospital say.
Various departments like medicine, neurosurgery and the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) were allocated these ventilators in the first phase of the installation in March. Two months down the line the installations have still not taken place.
“They are just lying somewhere in the hospital. The neurosurgery ward and the medicine ward still does not have them,” a senior doctor from the hospital told DNA. On Saturday, the neurosurgery ward on the fifth floor of the hospital was functioning without a single ventilator. Patients in the ward were using ambu-bags for the manual ventilation.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on March 11 had visited the neurosurgery ward located on the fifth floor where new ventilators were installed. On April 5, the Health Minister had asked the status report of the ventilators from all the government hospitals. In its reply, Lok Nayak Hospital …read more
