Work on first government critical care block for tribals in Vellore nearing completion

Work connected the archetypal Critical Care Block (CCB) installation astatine Government Taluk Hospitals successful Vellore, Arakkonam and Sriperumbudur towns is connected a accelerated track, with astir 90% of the full enactment being completed. Final signifier of the works similar painting, tile laying and electricals are being done.

Spread implicit 5,000 sq.ft, the single-storey installation volition beryllium a 50-bedded artifact with abstracted wards for maternity, newborn attraction and in-patients. It volition besides person an intensive attraction unit, an X-ray and scanning facilities. Three surgical theatres with ultrasound units volition besides beryllium a portion of the facility. The caller installation volition besides dainty patients for pain injuries, snake bites and cardiac problems.

The caller facility, which costs ₹23.75 crore, besides has a spacious out-patient ward with seating arrangements for 100 people. At present, the Government Taluk Hospital, which has 60 beds, gets 800-900 out-patients each day. The infirmary provides lone wide treatment, with astir of the cases being referred to the Government Medical College Hospital.

Officials of the Public Works Department (PWD), which executes the multi-crore work, said that the purpose of the caller installation is to supply timely attraction for mishap victims and tribals. Such facilities are being acceptable up adjacent highways and tribal areas to guarantee victims are attended to connected time. “As per a plan, each territory successful Tamil Nadu should person specified a installation to dainty mishap victims. The caller installation successful these towns volition beryllium acceptable by February,” S. Nagaraj, Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE), PWD (Vellore), told The Hindu.

In Vellore, the task is being monitored by Collector V.R. Subbulaxmi and K. Sudalaimuthu, Executive Engineer (EE), PWD (Vellore). The caller installation is being built astatine Government Taluk Hospital successful Anaicut astatine the foothills of Jawadhu Hills.

“Many times, we trek respective kilometres to dainty snake wound victims astatine the nearest hospital. Our decade-long request for specified a installation has been fulfilled,” said G. Sadaiyan, a tribal.

The infirmary is simply a lifeline for astatine slightest 38 villages including tribal hamlets successful the hills, covering a colonisation of astir 3 lakh persons. Residents person to beryllium connected the taluk infirmary arsenic the portion does not person backstage hospitals and clinics.

“Currently, mishap and snake wound victims successful these tribal areas get treated astatine the Government Medical College Hospital, astir 20 km distant from the hills. The caller CCB volition extremity their ordeal arsenic the installation is located astatine the centre of these villages,” said Dr. N. Singaravelan, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Government Taluk Hospital (Anaicut).

Health officials said that a akin installation is being built astatine Government Taluk Hospital successful Arakkonam and Sriperumbudur, arsenic these towns are located adjacent mishap prone stretches similar Old Madras Road and Chennai-Bengaluru Highway (NH-48).