Rajan Babu TB Hospital to be outfitted with full body CT scanners
Asia’s largest TB hospital, the Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary Medicine & Tuberculosis, will soon boast of advanced healthcare facilities. Apart from its ongoing upgradation, the hospital will soon be equipped with full body CT scanners; a facility which is currently unavailable at the centre. The hospital receives nearly 10,000 OPD patients every month of which nearly 500 patients are recommended full body CT scan for which they have to pay huge sum at private centres. Officials said the facility will be free for the poor patients as also outpatients will be able to get the CT scan done here. Currently, this facility is available at Hindu Rao Hospital and Maharshi Dayanand Hospital — both run by the North Delhi civic body.
Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary Medicine & Tuberculosis (RBIPMT) is the Asia’s largest institution to curb patients suffering from respiratory diseases by providing 1,155 indoor beds and fully functional general OPD for patients. Run by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC), the hospital will soon be having a medical college of its own besides upgradation of existing facilities. But the absence of whole body CT scan facility leaves approximately 350 to 400 patients into problem as they are forced to get it done from other medical institutions in Delhi. RBIPMT fulfils the requirements of NMC and the installation of CT scan facility will be a boon for poor patients like BPl card holders or others with no resources as 25 per cent of the tests would be free of cost.
Another proposal getting a green signal from the Standing Committee was the purchasing of plasma steriliser for cleaning of surgical instruments being used in its hospitals. Officials said plasma sterilisation is the latest technique being used in hospitals that does not require chemicals to sterilise the instruments. Sterilisation is a process which destroys all forms of life, especially micro-organisms. Plasma sterilisation uses a tri-phasic technique without going into the nitty-gritty. The process involves UV irradiation, photo-desorption and chemical etching. The plasma sterilisers would cost around Rs 37.5 lakh each.