Jammu Military Hospital completes 47 yrs of service

Amir Karim Tantray

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Tribune News Service

Jammu, July 4

The 166 Military Hospital of Jammu completed 47 years on July 1, after being raised on July 1, 1970, as a military hospital in place of a section hospital of 148 Base Hospital. It was renamed 166 Military Hospital in 1978.

The hospital is strategically located with all specialised and diagnostic services available under one roof and is the centre of medical activity during active operations and hostilities.

In the last one year, 73 snake bite cases have been treated and 2,150 cataract surgeries of veterans have been carried out here. More than 2,500 out-patients are seen daily and on an average, there are more than seven to eight caesarean cases and challenging cases in orthopaedics, surgery and medicine department. At any given time, the bed occupancy is 95 per cent and above. Keeping up the pace with rapid technological advances, this hospital has adopted the guidelines of the National Accreditation Board of Hospital (NABH) and in the next six months, the hospital is likely to get accreditation. The Military Hospital in Jammu has left no stone unturned in providing latest specialised medical services.

Brigadier Tathagata Chatterjee, a haematopathologist, assumed command of this hospital in November 2015. In the last two years, using his administrative acumen and vision, he has made efforts to improve the working of this hospital.

The hospital is now equipped with the state-of-the-art 1.5 Tesla MRI, the only functional one in the whole Command Zone as of today.

A new AC plant for operation theatre and the ICU has been installed. The piped oxygen, air and vacuum supply to the wards and departments of this hospital has been started. A new centrifuge machine has been installed in the blood bank of the hospital.

The auditorium is equipped with a movie projector for clinical lectures and the screening of movies for patients.

The hospital is connected via campus wide area network, the outpatient services, departments. Medical stores of the hospital, too, have been automated in terms of generation and maintenance of patients’ records.

One of the busiest hospitals in North India

• The 166 Military Hospital of Jammu is one of the busiest zonal hospitals in North India 
• This 600-bed hospital acts as a referral hospital for patients of Poonch, Rajouri, Akhnoor and Samba
• It provides cover as a garrison hospital for the troops and families of the Army, Air Force and GREF located in and around Jammu and Nagrota
• In addition, casualties of the BSF and the ITBP are also treated at this hospital