Entrepreneur builds NICU/SNCU for KIMS

To cater to the advanced medical requirements of newborns, entrepreneur VSV Prasad said the Rs 150-crore Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) and high-tech facilities will be officially handed over to KIMS on Monday.

Addressing media persons in Hubballi on Saturday, Director KIMS SF Kammar said that the NICU/SNCU named ‘Swarna Shishu Dharma’ will be opened on Monday at 11:30 am by Bharati Praveen Pawar, Union Health and Family Welfare Secretary. It will be officially inaugurated by the Minister. He said state medical education minister Sharanprakash Patil and others would participate in the event.

Dr Comer said the new facility will help KIMS meet the advanced treatment requirements of neonates (babies delivered in other hospitals) as it will function as a tertiary care unit for the North Karnataka region.

Talking about the facilities at the NICU/SNCU, neonatologist DH Marthandappa said the ward, spread over 6,700 square feet, was equipped with all high-tech equipment and facilities available in a private high-tech hospital. He said the 45-bed SNCU will be able to treat up to 200 newborns each month as it is already staffed with the necessary staff and an additional 15 will be added soon.

Dr. Marutanpat said that Mr. Joshi had approached the then director Ramalingappa Antarathani and Deputy Chief Minister Gurudatta Hegde to donate to the construction of SNCU and Mr. Prasad had offered to fund the entire project in memory of his late father Chigurupati Mallikarjuna Rao. He said he advised them to seek it.

Mr. Prasad, Managing Director of Swarna Group of Companies VSV, knew that the civil works would take longer than usual to complete under the government scheme, so he voluntarily built the facility and handed it over to KIMS. He said he had volunteered to do so. “We have strived to ensure that high medical standards were maintained during the construction of the facility. We have seamless resilient sheet floors (medical grade); HEPA filter central AC; Separation. Equipped with international quality equipment and a separate NICU exclusively for post-cardiac cases. Private hospitals charge thousands of dollars for such facilities, but at KIMS the poorest of the poor It will be available to people for free,” he said.

KIMS Principal Ishwar Hosamani said that since the COVID-19 outbreak, donations from philanthropists for the construction of facilities at KIMS Hospital have increased and KIMS appeals to people to come forward to make further donations for the development of medical facilities. He said he would request that. Nodal officer Laxmikant Lokare was also present.

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The NICU/SNCU includes preterm ICU, term ICU, step-down, kangaroo mother care, mother-side baby, and ancillary areas such as counseling room, data operator room, milking area, infusion preparation area, and equipment and medication storage area. there is. .