Environmental Sanitation Committee Meeting Of CMCH

Patients and bystanders should be educated on the need for keeping the hospital environment clean, District Collector V.Palanikumar said here on Saturday. Speaking at the Environmental Sanitation Committee meeting of the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH), he pointed out that the nurses and paramedical staff could explain to the patients and visitors how to maintain cleanliness within the hospital premises.

He urged the sanitation workers to clean the manholes periodically – once a week or may be two to three times a week. They should also be sensitised to biomedical and non-biomedical waste segregation. The authorities and people who visited the hospital should co-operate to maintain the hospital premises hygienic, he said.

The hospital was facing a severe shortage of nursing assistants, V.Kumaran, Dean In-Charge, CMCH, said. More than 60 posts were vacant. The number of vacancies for sanitary workers were 11. In the absence of adequate nursing assistants, the sanitary workers were often employed in nursing jobs. The campus had 68 buildings within it and three sewage outlets. With a heavy inflow of patients and lack of adequate manpower, maintaining hygiene was becoming increasingly difficult.

The hospital was accommodating 1,500 to 1,600 patients as against 1,020 sanctioned beds. R.Bhaskar, president of IC Governance, a non-Governmental organisation, said that posters on segregation of biomedical wastes would be distributed to the support staff at the hospital. Open dumping of wastes would be avoided. The sanitation inside the wards should be closely monitored. Officials from the Public Works Department should inspect the hospital periodically and open drainages should be covered. The dilapidated buildings within the campus should be demolished and the leaking pipes should be attended to. K. Kavidasan, Director, Corporate Human Resources Development of the Roots Group, also took part.

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