Vinay Nigam, Executive Director, BHEL, Bhopal and Jhansi inaugurated the Biochemistry Analyzer machine here on Thursday in a simple program organized by the Pathology Department of Kasturba Hospital, BHEL, Bhopal. Dr Alpana Tiwari, Head (Medical Services), Avinash Chandra, General Manager (HR & Logistics), all General Managers, senior doctor’s, officers and staff of Kasturba Hospital were also present on the occasion.

On this occasion, Nigam said that the management is making efforts to ensure that medical facilities and other facilities are easily available to the employees.

The need for this machine was being felt in Kasturba Hospital for a long time. This machine will provide a lot of convenience to the patients. In this series, Shri Nigam also inaugurated the doctors' meeting room in Kasturba Hospital. In this room, doctors will be able to discuss serious and rare diseases of the patients admitted in the hospital, as well as do official work.

In her address, Dr Alpana Tiwari said that this machine is a state-of-the-art machine manufactured by Siemens Company, in which 30 types of pathological tests can be done, such as HBVNC, Iron Studies, Serum Lipase, Amylase ADA, CRP Quantitative etc.

This machine is available only in selected super specialty hospitals of Bhopal. With the installation of this machine in Kasturba Hospital, the printed reports of the patients will be available faster and as a result, the disease can be diagnosed and treatment can be started immediately without any extra delay.

She thanked the management for installing this machine in Kasturba Hospital.

It is noteworthy that in this financial year Kasturba Hospital has also installed Haematology Analyzer 5-part machine in which 28 parameters are tested and the patients admitted in the hospital are benefiting a lot from it.