CMC's special efforts to ensure total sanitation

Coimbatore Medical College Hospital will make special efforts to ensure total sanitation on its premises.The Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, the medical college and the hostels are set to witness intensive efforts at improving sanitation on their premises.A committee formed by the State Government for this purpose will endeavour to turn Government-owned medical college hospitals rise to the level of private healthcare institutions in terms of sanitation.

The first meeting of the recently-constituted Environmental and Sanitation Committee in the district will be held here on November 26 to take stock of the problems in and the requirements of the hospital, the medical college and the hostels.Formed by the Government primarily to address problems impeding efforts to ensure hygiene in Government hospitals, the committee will also look into structural deficiencies that contribute to these.Its formation is seen as a step towards turning these Government medical institutions into quality healthcare centres by including even basic hygiene as an essential component of hospital administration.

Collector Neeraj Mittal is the chairman of the committee. Dean of the medical college and hospital Hemalatha Ganapathy is the vice-chairperson of the panel. Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner P. Muthuveeran is a member of the committee.The other members include the Chief Engineers of the Public Works Department (PWD) and Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board, the Joint Director and Deputy Director of Health Services and the Chief Water Analyst. According to the Dean, review meetings will be held every month to ensure clean environs in the hospital, college and hostels. Prompt removal of garbage to keep flies away will be one of the areas of key focus. A waste management programme is already on at the hospital, in association with the Residents Awareness Association of Coimbatore, and the Government’s initiative is expected to provide further impetus to clean environs.

Garbage generated at the wards in the hospital, those dumped by visitors and also the waste in the hostels and college will be removed to keep rats away. The dean says anti-fly and anti-rodent measures will form a major part of the drive. Flies and rats are potential disease causing problems that arise because of lack of sanitation.
Explaining the involvement of TWAD Board and PWD officials as members of the committee, Dr. Hemalatha Ganapathy says structural flaws leading to sanitation problems, such as sewage backflow or stagnation, will also be taken up by the committee. These come under the purview of these agencies. “Our primary task is to ensure good patient care. It will be affected if these problems remain unsolved. Therefore this combined effort at hygiene is being taken up,” says the Dean.

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