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NOIDA: The Super Specialty Paediatric Hospital and Post Graduate Teaching Institute (SSPHPGTI), Sector 30, also known as Child PGI, is all set to have a bio-safety level 3 (BSL-3) lab for RT-PCR testing by March next year. It will be the first such lab for the district even as GIMS too has applied for its sanction.
The Uttar Pradesh government has sanctioned Rs 2.8 crore for the setting up of the lab, which will come up on a 1,200 sqft area on the ground floor of the institute, Child PGI chief medical superintendent Dr DK Singh said.
He added that the lab will be functional by April and will begin with four-five technicians.
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NOIDA: Two hospitals in GB Nagar have started to follow the state’s newly revised guidelines for convalescent plasma treatment (CPT).
Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Greater Noida and Super Specialty Paediatric Hospital and Post Graduate Teaching Institute (SSPHPGTI) or Child PGI in Noida’s Sector 30 are following the new norms that have been derived from the guidelines set by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
The department of transfusion medicine at King George s Medical University (KGMU) issued the new guidelines on December 18. The other six centres that have participated in the process include SN Medical College (Agra), MLN Medical College (Allahabad), MLB Medical College (Jhansi), BRD Medical College (Gorakhpur) and GSVM Medical College (Kanpur).
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NOIDA: On a visit to the district on Friday, additional chief secretary (ACS) medical education Rajneesh Dubey approved the land for a campus for Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Greater Noida and also cleared registry and power related issues of Child PGI in Sector 30.
“The ACS approved in principle a 49-acre-land in Gautam Budh University for GIMS. separate building for us has been in the pipeline for some time. Now, we are waiting for a cabinet approval for the same,” said Brigadier (retd) Dr RK Gupta, the director of GIMS.
Dr DK Singh, chief medical superintendent of Child PGI. said, “We asked the ACS about the need to separate the residential, domestic consumption from that of commercial charge which is applicable for the hospital functioning only as it amounts to nearly 25-30% more power charge for residential staff of the hospital.”
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GREATER NOIDA: Sharda Hospital and School of Medical Sciences and Research (SMSR) has drafted a letter to be sent to the state government for the reinstatement of its routine and speciality facilities such as cardiology, nephrology, neurology and oncology ophthalmology which have been suffering since the hospital was turned into a Covid facility.
The L3 Covid hospital which currently has 600 beds earmarked for Covid care has less than 40 Covid patients currently 37 Covid patients and 60 non-Covid patients, including from emergency/casualty.
Further, as against earlier 1,500-2,000 patients in its OPD during pre-Covid times, the hospital is currently getting only 300-350 patients in its OPD where less than 100 are for its fever clinic.
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NOIDA/GREATER NOIDA: The number of Covid patients admitted to ICU wards at various hospitals in Noida and Greater Noida has been on the decline, but there is a major issue that they still have to grapple with comorbidities.
While the government s Covid facilities have seen a drop to under 16 patients, the number is marginally higher at under 18 in most private hospitals. As per the data shared by the hospital authorities, most of the patients admitted in ICU wards are over 50 years of age and some of them are being treated for additional problems, including rare comorbidities.
Some of the major issues that the Covid patients have complained of include alveolar microlithiasis (a disorder in which tiny fragments of calcium phosphate accumulate in the small air sacs), patients with one kidney, Wegner’s granulomatosis (inflammation of the blood vessels in nose, throat, lungs and kidneys), cellulitis (a serious bacterial skin infection leading to skin inflamm