IIT Experts Will Now Supervise Equipment in Government Hospitals

The Delhi government decided to bring in experts from IIT Delhi to check on the technical work in its hospitals and installations and maintenance of medical equipments and also the gas manifold system amongst others.

This decision came after incident at Sushruta Trauma Centre malfunction surfaced. The infamous misfortune led to the demise of four critically ill patients due to the malfunction in the oxygen supply.

Following all this,  changes have come in the hospitals. IIT Delhi will very soon set up a bio engineering cell at the state level in Maulana Azad Medical College. The cell will examine the systems and work on procedures that will be later up graded in the hospitals.

Apart from all this, a four-member Committee under the chairmanship of Dr Arun Kumar Agarwal, Dean, Maulana Azad Medical College has also been constituted to review the existing medical procedures and facilities. The members after reviewing will recommend the needed changes.