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CD Hospital, Dalgate Shifting To GB Panth, Sonwar

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Srinagar: Authorities on Wednesday said that the Chest Diseases (CD) Hospital will be shifted to GB Panth, Sonwar in the next two weeks. 

Dr. Saleem Tak, Medical Superintendent, CD Hospital said that over the next two weeks, the Chest Disease hospital will be shifted to Sonwar, which earlier children’s hospital.

“It was delayed because oxygen supply wasn't available to every bed at Sonwar, now work-related to that is underway which is expected to get complete in the next two weeks,” he said.

Notably last year, H&ME (Health & Medical Education Department) ordered to shift children’s Hospital from Sonwar to Bemina, it also directed the Principal, GMC Srinagar to chalk out an action plan for the shifting of the CD Hospital to GB Panth.

The officials said that the CD Hospital building at Dalgate will be used as an infectious disease hospital while the Tuberculosis division of the pulmonary and respiratory medicine department will also remain functional there.

In October 2022, the Medical Superintendent of CD hospital wrote to the executive engineer MH&CH Srinagar to inspect support systems and carry out rectifications of whatever was needed on an emergency basis at GB Panth hospital before shifting CD hospital there.

The support systems to be inspected include an oxygen plant and piping system to every bed of GB Panth hospital to be ensured, generators for backup of electricity need to be serviced and kept ready, a central heating system may be inspected, Fire fighting system also needs to be kept ready, Laundry section also needs to be inspected and whatever rectification is needed may be done and Water pumping facility may be checked and kept ready, MS had written

The government is also planning to set up a drug de-addiction center at the CD’s Dalgate building which will be handled by the concerned department of the GMC, Srinagar, they said.

They said that the GB Pant Hospital has good facilities in terms of space, bed capacity, rooms for doctors, and proper machinery and there are around 250 beds in GB Pant Hospital while CD Hospital has only a 150-bedded capacity.

Notably, on September 16 last year, the GB Pant Hospital, Srinagar was shifted to the newly-constructed 500-bedded Children Hospital at Bemina.

(KNO)