In Covid battle, GMSH mulls paediatric facility

Chandigarh, August 30

In the battle against Covid-19, Government Multi-Specialty Hospital, Sector 16, has proposed setting up an exclusive 32-bed paediatric hospital for the younger population.

Dr VK Nagpal, Medical Superintendent of the GMSH, Sector 16, said: “We have proposed a hospital for the paediatric population with 12 ICU beds installed in the block. The hospital will be set up at the nursing college as the building is vacant after the college was shifted to the GMCH, Sector 32.”

“The Architecture Department has already been involved in the project and a tender will likely be passed in two days,” said Nagpal.

The hospital had recently increased the ICU-bed capacity from eight to 20 to meet the demand of Covid patients. The soon-to-be-operational ICU will have state-of-the-art ventilators, beds and multi-para monitors. An additional PSA plant with 1,000 litres per minute (LPM) capacity will be installed soon at the hospital.

The Health Department has also decided to make the Sector 45 Civil Hospital a 42-bed paediatric Covid centre. Of the total beds, 12 will be made available for the ICU while 30 will be oxygenated. — TNS