No clarity over new operation theatre at Guru Nanak Eye Centre
6 Dec 2014 6:15 AM IST
The OT had to be closed following unidentified infection to patients after they underwent surgery at the eye centre. A committee was constituted by the Delhi government to identify the source of infection. The committee found the infection spread through the water supplied to the hospital and recommended construction of new OT. The committee also found fault in structural design of OT as another reason for the infection in the facility, said a senior hospital official.
The absence of OT at the hospital have caused severe inconvenience to hundreds of patients, as it used to conduct over 100 surgeries daily.
SCL Das, Delhi’s health secretary said the new OT will soon come up at the hospital. “I personally found structural defects in OT. The water supplied to the OT was also infected”, said Das while adding the water tank has been changed with latest technology to purify it.
The loopholes in the OT system first came to the notice of hospital authority after 10 people who underwent surgeries there, got severe infection. Over three dozen samples were taken from the OT and sent for testing at Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), which failed to identify the reason behind the infection. After a month, the OT was reopened and few more patients got infected post their surgery.
The hospital authorities tried to identify the reason behind the infection and sterilised the instruments and the operation theatre itself. Shockingly, even after the sterlisation, some more patients got the infection, forcing the authorities to shut it permanently in August. Since then, the OT has not opened for the patients. “So far no action has been taken against the concerned authorities for the lack of maintenance of the OT,” complained Das, the health secretary.
The absence of OT at the hospital have caused severe inconvenience to hundreds of patients, as it used to conduct over 100 surgeries daily.
SCL Das, Delhi’s health secretary said the new OT will soon come up at the hospital. “I personally found structural defects in OT. The water supplied to the OT was also infected”, said Das while adding the water tank has been changed with latest technology to purify it.
The loopholes in the OT system first came to the notice of hospital authority after 10 people who underwent surgeries there, got severe infection. Over three dozen samples were taken from the OT and sent for testing at Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), which failed to identify the reason behind the infection. After a month, the OT was reopened and few more patients got infected post their surgery.
The hospital authorities tried to identify the reason behind the infection and sterilised the instruments and the operation theatre itself. Shockingly, even after the sterlisation, some more patients got the infection, forcing the authorities to shut it permanently in August. Since then, the OT has not opened for the patients. “So far no action has been taken against the concerned authorities for the lack of maintenance of the OT,” complained Das, the health secretary.
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