Union Minister for MSME, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Pratap Chandra Sarangi unveiled a ventilator for the special care unit at the District Headquarters Hospital on Sunday.
For the ventilator, the Minister had released an amount Rs 20 lakh out of his LAD fund. Inaugurating the ventilator, Sarangi expressed that it would help in saving lives of critical patients and further said that he would provide a ventilator equipped ambulance soon for the better care of transporting patients. It may be noted earlier Sarangi had provided water ATMs in several healthcare centres including the DHH.
During visit while issues like theft from the ward was brought to his knowledge he immediately asked the district Collector to remove the security agency and engage a new. Further, regarding theft of a mobile belonging to an attendant of a patient from a ward, he asked the hospital authorities to recover the money from the contractor and pay the amount to the aggrieved.
He also asked the authorities to ensure workability of all CCTV cameras installed in the DHH premises and stepping up the security.Besides district Collector K Sudarshan Chakravarthy, CDMO Dulalsen Jagdeo and several other doctors and staff of the DHH were present.