PATNA: Deputy CM
Sushil Kumar Modi inaugurated an
eye bank
at
Patna Medical College and Hospital
(PMCH) to mark the World Organ Donation Day on Monday. He also laid the foundation stones for a kidney transplant unit and a burn ward at the hospital besides inaugurating an additional 100-bed facility in the emergency block.
Modi asked the health officials to conduct surveys to find out the number of such persons who need eye transplantation. He also asked the health department to send its officials to other states, such as
Tamil Nadu,
Gujarat
and
Maharashtra, to study the processes they have adopted for organ donation. The deputy CM emphasised the need to establish a bone and skin bank in the state.
“The kidney transplant unit at PMCH will be developed by Bihar Medical Services Infrastructure and Corporation Ltd in the next nine months with an estimated expenditure of Rs 12.66 crore. The 21-bed burn ward, entailing an expenditure of Rs 5.29 crore, will be ready by the next six months,” Modi added.
Principal secretary of health department Sanjay Kumar said around 1,70,000 people in the state suffer from some form of blindness. “Around 5,000 corneal transplants will have to be carried out per year for the next 15 years,” Kumar added.
Commenting on eye banks in all eight government medical colleges in the state, Kumar said the equipment and infrastructure for the same would be developed within the next 6 weeks by BMSICL.
The event was also attended by health minister Mangal Pandey. The first corneal eye transplant was carried out at PMCH on Monday with support from Regional Institute of Ophthalmology of
Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences.
Rs 5,459cr to be spent to improve facilities at hospital: The state government will spend Rs 5,459 crore to transform Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) into a 5,000-bed state-of-the-art hospital within the next seven-and-a-half years. According to a health department official, the project will be executed in three phases. The hospital building will be built with base isolation technology so as to make it earthquake proof. It will have a 500-bed emergency block, 670 ICU beds, 140 OPD consultation rooms and 60 modular operation theatres.
The number of MBBS seats is proposed to be increased to 250. Accommodation facilities will also be developed for 1,944 faculty and staff members and 1,335 students.
Principal secretary of health department Sanjay Kumar said a sum of Rs 15 crore would be spent to develop a pathology lab, four modular operation theatres and a triage system. Triage is the process of determining the priority of patients’ treatments based on the severity of their condition.
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