With the aim to curb spreading of infection in Government hospitals in the city a mechanised laundry would be established at Hamidia hospital.
The clothes of three hospitals Hamidia, Sultania and Kamla Nehru hospitals would be provided with mechanised laundry washing after the installation of mechanised laundry at Hamidia hospital. According to the State Pollution Control Board guidelines the clothes of hospitals should be washed using mechanized laundry. This includes bed sheets, pillow cover and pillow, blanket, dress, gown of doctors and operation theater clothes are carrier of bacteria and virus which makes them harmful and must undergo the washing process in mechanized laundry.
Superintendent of Hamidia hospital DK Pal told that tenders have been floated and within next 2-3 months the laundry would become functional. The installation would done on Public Private Partnership (PPP) model in which the vendor which would be awarded with the work would be provided the payment for different clothes for laundry.
CMHO Pankaj Shukla said that JP hospital and Bairagarh hospital lack mechanized laundry and the work has been awarded to a private vendor who owns mechanized laundry. The vendor which was recommended by state pollution control board has been assigned with the washing work. The whole action was in response after Human Rights Commission issued a notice to Hamidia and JP hospital regarding the washing of clothes in unhygienic conditions which harms the patients and others who are involved in washing clothes of patients.
Discussions on disposal of biomedical waste and washing of clothes were held by District Collector Nishant Warwade with JP hospital and later the vendor was assigned with the work. After the notice was issued process of installation of mechanized laundry in Hamidia hospital was started and the process would be completed soon.