More power for CMCH
The Coimbatore Medical College Hospital is set to get more power, literally, to improve its functioning.The Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation has sanctioned a loan of Rs. 40 lakh to install two transformers of 500 kv each to step up power supply. Dean (In-Charge) V. Kumaran said on Tuesday that the hospital now had only one transformer of 500 kv capacity.“Our present requirement is 1500 kv and this can be met only with the additional ones that we can have with the loan sanctioned now,” he said.The hospital recently got a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment that itself required 160 kv. While the equipment was provided as part of modernising health care in the Government hospitals attached to medical colleges, this hospital was in need of better power supply to make it work.Dr. Kumaran said that frequent power trips and low voltage affected the functioning of some wings of the hospital.A voltage drop turned the focus lights in the operation theatres dim at the time of surgery. Other sophisticated equipment in the theatres and scan rooms suffered damage because of poor voltage. Bulbs across the hospital had to be changed often and the air-conditioners were also affected.
Inadequate power had a severe impact on the cold storage facility in the mortuary.“The new transformers will certainly solve all these problems. The arrival of the MRI equipment is a blessing in disguise and its individual quota of power brought out clearly the need to improve supply all over the hospital,” Dr. Kumaran said.
