In order to provide emergency services to patients in critical condition, the State Health and Family Welfare Department would set up intensive care units (ICUs) in seven district headquarters hospitals (DHHs) in the State.
A Press release issued by the department said that it has already opened six ICUs in the DHHs of Puri, Malkangiri, Nabarangapur, Balangir, Koraput and in the Capital Hospital here. Very shortly, the department would open the seven ICUs in the DHHs of Nuapada, Baleswar, Jajpur, Mayurbhanj, Kalahandi, Bargarh and Angul.
The department would spend `1 crore for an ICU which has six beds. Each ICU would have three trained doctors, 10 nurses and paramedics. The DHHs of 20 districts would be equipped with ICUs by 2015-16, officials in the department said.
Recently, an integrated Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) complex was inaugurated in the Koraput DHH. The complex was set up under the National Programme for Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS). Koraput became the fourth district in the State to have such type of facilities after Balangir, Nabarangpur and Malkangiri.
The NCD complex houses all programme components like six-bed ICU, 10-bed Geriatric Ward, four-bed Daycare Chemotherapy Unit, lab and Physiotherapy Unit. It has been constructed at a cost of Rs 2.5 crore.
The officials said that work at the remaining Nuapada district in the first phase NPCDCS is almost over and will be operational soon.