IGIMS gets a booster dose of facilities

State health minister Mangal Pandey inaugurated an array of facilities at Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) including a liver transplant unit, a pediatric intensive care unit, a virology lab, a transition zone, an eye ward, and renovated private wards including 60 air-conditioned wards, 32 deluxe wards, and four non-AC wards. Patients who are in the transition phase between serious and non-serious and whom we cannot keep in wards or in the intensive care unit, would be admitted in the transition zone. Earlier, because of not having the facility, the hospital was forced to release the patients. The transition zone can accommodate 30 patients at a time. With a `1.5 crore, four-bed liver transplant unit inaugurated, it would take the hospital another one month to start liver transplant surgery. With the starting of the virology lab, all kinds of viral tests which the doctors would think necessary would be conducted on patients. Earlier only few viral tests were being conducted on patients such as HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C test. The test for vector-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya, test for hepatitis A and hepatitis E would also be conducted in the virology lab, apart from pregnancy viral infections-related tests.