Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo credit: PTI)
Faridabad: A 2,600-bed new private hospital equipped with cutting-edge technology, including a centralised fully automated laboratory, patient-centric wards and OPDs, and built on a sprawling 130-acre campus with sustainability in mind is all set to be opened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 24.
The new super speciality hospital will initially open with 500 beds and is expected to be fully operational in a phase-wise manner in the course of the next five years. The hospital with 81 specialities, once fully operational, is billed to be the largest private hospital in Delhi-NCR and the country, its officials said.
According to Dr Sanjeev K Singh, Resident Medical Director, Amrita Hospital, the project was first envisioned in 2012 and the initial plan was to site it in Delhi but eventually it was decided to build it in Faridabad. The groundwork for the project had started in mid-2016 was delayed due to multiple factors like acquisition of farm lands, and was heavily stalled during the lockdowns induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"However, COVID-19 also taught us lessons, and some of the designs were redrawn and certain elements were incorporated to make the hospital environment safer for people as Covid infection is now being assumed to spread largely through droplets or air. So, we have built something called a negative pressure room - a kind of an an isolation room, in which suspected cases can be kept away from others. This is different from a regular isolation room," he told PTI in an interview.
In such rooms, the air pressure inside the room is lower than the air pressure outside it and non-contaminated filtered air can flow into the negative pressure room, while contaminated air is sucked out of the room with exhaust systems, which are built with filters that clean the air before it is pumped out and away from a healthcare facility, the doctor explained.
"Besides, our system attempts to make the process as contactless as possible. So, every doctor will have a dedicated digital tablet, meaning it can't be shared with others, which will have all the details and history of patients. This step is also in line with the vision of sustainability in the project to make it as paperless as possible," he added.
In a modular ICU ward, two patients kept in adjacent rooms with sliding glass doors, can be monitored simultaneously with a small common nursing station manned by one nurse, who can call nursing assistance or doctors just with the press of colour-coded buttons installed next to the patient's bed.
"In terms of cutting-edge technology being introduced as also to make the system more patient-centric, from each room in critical care or other wards, blood or other samples can be taken within the room only, and then the vial can be sent to the centralised lab using pneumatic tubes, with no human interference. That way, the scope of contact also gets reduced," Singh said.
Each vial has a barcode, and once the vial reaches the collection room, and is manually moved to the lab system, it is sent to the designated machine automatically guided by the bar code, whether it is for serum or plasma extraction or blood test, etc. It is a massive automated system, he said.
Besides giving the best of the healthcare, cutting-edge medical research will be a strong thrust area, and "we are in the process of entering into research collaborations with some of the world's biggest names in medical science, including several top US universities", Dr Singh said.
The research block will have different segments, including a small animals lab in the basement, a biorepository, large capacity electron microscope (weighing about 15 tonne), exhibition of major research globally, including by Nobel laureates, exclusive 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 said, adding, there will also be a focus on identifying newer diagnostic markers.
"Our PM talks of Jai Anusandhan, so it is in line with that vision too," Dr Singh said.
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