AMU seeks Level 3 hospital status for JNMCH

AGRA: Aligarh Muslim University vice-chancellor, Prof Tariq Mansoor has urged chief minister Yogi Adityanath to grant Covid-19 Level-3 Hospital status to the University’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital.
In a letter to the chief minister, the VC said that JNMC Hospital fulfils all requirements for a Level 3 Hospital and its elevation will immensely benefit the patients in Aligarh division.
Prof Mansoor said that the JNMC Hospital’s Covid-19 ward consist of 80 beds and ten ventilators, with central Oxygen supply to the isolation ward. AMU has purchased one RT-PCR Machine for testing of Covid-19 patients as well as placed order for four new ventilators costing Rs 70 Lacs.
Prof Mansoor further said that the university has also placed an order for a Dialysis machine and separate dialysis facility for COVID-19 patients will be provided. He said that the JNMC Hospital has separate Covid-19 Operation Theatre and a Labour Room and the funds, spent on the management of patients and equipment on this front, have been arranged by the university from its own resources.