NEW DELHI, Aug 10:
On this Independence Day, apart from AIIMS other hospitals in Delhi will be directly connected to the Red Fort for providing special health treatment to VVIPs in case any emergency arises.
According to Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA) sources, the MHA and the Union Health Ministry in coordination with each other have made a strategy under which special emergency units of various hospitals in Delhi are being connected to the Red Fort through wireless so that if any exigency occurs vis-a-vis the health of the Prime Minister and some other VVIPs these hospitals can be alerted well in advance.
When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addresses the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, that time not only will doctors from the Central Health Scheme with their mobile emergency units be alert but a wireless technique will also be in place through which doctors and emergency treatment officers of hospitals will be connected to the 17th century fort complex.
In the past, only AIIMS had the arrangements for emergency treatment for the Prime Minister and other VVIPs on August 15 and the premier health institute specialist doctors used to be stationed at the Red Fort.
This is the first time that the ambit for emergency treatment on Independence Day for the PM and other VVIPs is being expanded.
Under this strategy, a special emergency treatment unit is also being made at Safdarjung Hospital and it will be operational only on August 15.
In case of emergency, this hospital will provide the best of health services to the VVIP concerned.
On the same lines, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and G B Pant Hospital too have been alerted.
All these four hospitals — AIIMS, Safdarjung, Ram Manohar Lohia and G B Pant — are being connected to the police control room.
A special wireless equipment is being installed in all the four hospitals which will have connection with the Red Fort only.
It will be overseen by the Vinay Marg-based VIP security wing.
After having consultations with doctors, the setting up of the special wireless equipment in the hospitals has been given the go-ahead.
Wireless operators for the coordination between doctors and health service workers will also be stationed at the Red Fort.
They all will be operational and active for any emergency till August 15 night after which wireless operators will be removed from there.
On the directions of the Union Health Ministry, ambulances equipped with the state-of-the-art facilities will be deployed at the Red Fort and some other strategic places in the national capital on August 15 and in every ambulance there will be a doctor, nurse and paramedic personnel.
(UNI)
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