Faridabad: A new 2,600-bed private hospital equipped with state-of-the-art technology including a centralized fully automated laboratory, patient-centric wards and OPD, and built on a sprawling 130-acre campus with sustainability in mind. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Here next week.
State-Art Amrita Hospital There is a dedicated seven-storey research block and it was constructed over a period of six years Mata Amritanandamayi Math. The Prime Minister is going to inaugurate this hospital on August 24.
The new super specialty hospital will initially open with 500 beds and is expected to be fully operational in phases over the next five years. The 81-specialty hospital, once fully operational, will be the largest private hospital in Delhi-NCR and the country, officials said.
According to Dr Sanjeev K Singh, Resident Medical Director of the hospital, the project was first conceived in 2012 and the initial plan was to place it in Delhi but eventually it was decided to build it in Faridabad. Groundwork for the project in mid-2016 was delayed due to several factors such as acquisition of agricultural lands and was severely stalled during the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“However, Covid also taught us a lesson, and some designs were redrawn and certain elements were incorporated to make the hospital environment safer for people as the Covid infection is now believed to be widely spread through droplets or air. So, we have created something. Called a negative pressure room – a kind of isolation room, where suspected cases can be kept away from others. This is different from the regular isolation room,” he told PTI in an interview.
In such a room, the air pressure inside the room is lower than the air pressure outside it and uncontaminated filtered air can flow into the negative pressure room, while the contaminated air is pulled out of the room with exhaust systems, which are built with filters. That cleans the air before it is discharged and away from the healthcare facility, the doctor explained.
“Also, our system tries to make the process as contactless as possible. Therefore, each doctor will have a dedicated digital tablet, meaning it cannot be shared with others, which will contain all the details and history of the patients. This step. The project Also with a vision of sustainability in it to make it as paperless as possible,” he added.
Amrita Hospital is the second hospital in the country under the auspices of Mata Amritanandamayi Math, the first of which was established in Kochi in 1998.
The new mega hospital in Sector 88 of Faridabad near Delhi-Mathura Road has a built-up area of one crore square feet, and the campus will also have a medical college, a dedicated research block and eight centers of excellence – gastro-science, renal science, bone diseases and trauma. Transplantation and maternal and child care.
The hospital buildings will be spread over 36 lakh square feet in built-up area, with a 14-storey tower housing major medical facilities. Officials said that there is also a helipad facility on the roof.
Built with a patient-centric approach, the hospital will also have “India’s largest facility” to deal with infectious diseases, a hospital spokesperson said, with 54 critical care units, a smart ICU with 534 critical care beds that are digitally monitored. round-the-clock, and 64 fully networked modular operation theatres. Once fully operational, the hospital will have about 10,000 staff and more than 800 doctors, she said.
In a modular ICU ward, two patients housed in adjacent rooms with sliding glass doors can be monitored simultaneously through a small common nursing station manned by a single nurse, who can call for nursing assistance or doctors simply by pressing color-coded buttons installed on the side. At the patient’s bedside.
“Sophisticated technology is also being introduced to make the system more patient-centric, in that, in each room, from critical care or other wards, blood or other samples can be taken within the room itself, and then sent to the vial. Using a pneumatic tube In a centralized laboratory, with no human intervention. Thus, the scope of contact also reduces,” said Singh.
Each vial has a bar code, and once the vial reaches the collection room, and is manually moved into the lab system, it is sent to a designated machine automatically guided by the bar code for serum or plasma extraction or blood testing. , etc. It’s a huge automated system, he said.
The hospital’s resident medical director said, apart from providing the best healthcare, cutting-edge medical research will be a strong area and “we are in the process of entering into research collaborations with some of the world’s biggest names in medical science, including many top US universities.”
The research block will have various departments including a small animal lab in the basement, a biorepository, a large capacity electron microscope (about 15 tons weight), a showcase of major research globally, by Nobel laureates, specialized Grade A to D GMP (goods manufacturing). practice) labs, bioinformatics with AI and machine learning, integrated research and integrated medicine on the top floor, he added, will also focus on identifying new diagnostic markers.
“Our PM talks about ‘Jai Anusandhan’, so he lives up to that vision,” Singh said.
