Srinagar: The out patient department (OPD) of Bone and Joint Hospital at Barzulla resumed services today and nearly hundred patients were treated on the first day after devastating fire damaged it last week.
Medical Superintendent of the hospital, confirmed the resumption of OPD saying 105 patients were treated at the hospital today.
The hospital was damaged after major fire broke out on Friday.
Presently the hospital is not in a position to admit the patients but all arrangements have been made to provide consultations to the patients, hospital sources said.
Sources said that a Trauma Unit has been set up at SMHS Hospital Srinagar and it caters to patients with poly-trauma.
They added that thirty persons injured in a grenade attack at Amirakadal on Sunday were treated at the Unit.
The sources further said that the admitted patients, who were evacuated in the wake of fire incident, are being treated at different hospitals.
“37 of them are being treated at SMHS Hospital while 18 patients were referred to SKIMS Medical College Bemina and the rest with minor problems were discharged,” the sources said.
Meanwhile, the hospital authorities said that the preliminary estimates suggest 90 percent equipment at the hospital was safe.
Medical Superintendent Dr Mian Suhail told KNO that main operation theatre, blood bank, digital CT, MRI, X-Ray plant, oxygen plant, boiler house, gensets, wards, laboratory, OPD, injection section, physiotherapy, plaster section, dressing section, drug and general store and records are safe.
He said that they are waiting for clearance from the engineering department for safety audit of the building to resume all the services in the hospital. Besides, they are waiting to get electric junctions repaired as water may have caused damage to them.
The government has set a 10 days deadline to resume all the services in the hospital.
