HYDERABAD: To ensure easy availability of wheelchairs and stretchers for patients at casualty ward and Intensive Care Units (ICU) in Gandhi Hospital, coloured wheelchairs and stretchers are being introduced. Red wheelchairs and stretchers will be allotted to casualty ward, blue ones to ICUs, and whites for the remaining wards. The hospital authorities said that at times, stretchers taken from one ward and are left in some other part of the hospital. Since patients in ICUs and casualty ward need constant and immediate medical attention, delay in getting wheelchairs even for a few minutes can deteriorate a patient’s condition.
The hospital’s superintendent Dr P Shravan Kumar and other officials came up with the idea. “The task of taking a patient from one ward to another is assigned to patient care providers. They should ensure that the stretchers taken from casualty or ICUs are brought back,” the hospital authorities said.
“At the outset, 12 wheelchairs and 12 stretchers each will be allotted to the two sections of the hospital,” said Dr Narsing Rao Netha, deputy superintendent of the hospital.
Omnipolis system for emergencies
To alert Gandhi Hospital authorities, police and private security personnel in emergency situations such as attack on doctors or fire accidents, Omnipolis system (based on GPS ) would be inaugurated there soon. “When a button in the GPS Security system is pressed, the message will be sent to police control room, nearest police station, hospital authorities and private security personnel. At least 20 security men and women will be on duty. Their force can immediately disperse if there is attack on doctors,” Dr Narsing Rao said.