MRI Scans: Hosp Lacks Facilities For Ct, Mri Scans, Own Ambulance | Jaipur News
For the transportation of patients for CT or MRI scan, the IRD does not have its own ambulance. The IRD arranges ambulance from outside for transporting patients. Moreover, it does not have facilities for even basic facilities for thyroid and other basic tests. The institute sends the samples collected from the patients to other government hospitals.
The institute was established in 1938 as King George V Sanitarium after which its name was changed to Chest and TB Hospital and in June 2012 it was changed to Institute of Respiratory Diseases. Patients not only from Jaipur but also from other districts and from outside, including Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi, come here for treatment.
“The facilities at the institute need to improve. The building is quite old. It looks like it is neglected and need to attract attention of the state government,” said Naved Ali, a resident of Kalwar, who rushed his mother to the hospital on oxygen support.
The hospital has just seven beds in ICU for intensive care of the patients. The patients who suffer breathing difficulties including silicosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases have just seven beds in the ICU of the hospital.
IRD officials said that they have plans for the upgradation of the institute and they are working on it accordingly. They said that a 30-bedded ICU is coming up in the institute soon.
