New Medical Equipment for Workers at ESIC Hospitals - Thanks to Laxmibai Dwarkadas Charity Trust
Safe In India recently supported two ESI hospitals, with medical equipment. With the support of Laxmibai Dwarkadas Charity Trust, we provided 5 multi-parameter patient monitors to ESIC Hospital, Manesar, and a Non-Stress Test machine, which monitors the baby's heart rate in pregnancy, to ESIC Hospital, Mohan Nagar in Pune. These machines were needed for a long time.
We are hopeful that these machines will be able to better serve thousands of women and men workers in the years to come!
What New Equipment at ESIC Manesar and ESIC Mohan Nagar Means for Workers?
At ESIC Hospital, Manesar, these machines will help the much needed close health monitoring:
Multi-parameter patient monitors are standard equipment in hospital wards, used wherever patients need to be monitored closely. It also records those readings, so ESI staff coming on duty can track recovery, progress and any other changes in vitals of the patients throughout the day.
Staff at ESIC Hospital, Manesar told us that the monitors track parameters and vitals for admitted patients. They told us that the monitor tracks heart rate and rhythm, blood pressure, oxygen levels in the blood, breathing rate, and temperature. It displays all of them on one screen, and sounds an alert when any reading moves outside the safe range. The staff also said that three of the machines are placed in casualty and two in the medicine ward, and that the recording function has been useful.
Multiparameter monitors are crucial at every stage of a disabled workers’ medical care, from the moment they arrive in casualty, through admission, and across the days they spend on the ward.
At ESIC Hospital, Mohan Nagar, Pune, without these machines, pregnant women were asked to do these tests elsewhere, often costing them personally.
Staff at ESIC Hospital, Mohan Nagar told us that after around 34 weeks of pregnancy, every patient requires a Non-Stress Test and that it is particularly important for women with a history of hypertension (high blood pressure) and diabetes. Both conditions can affect the placenta and leave the fetus under strain without any visible signs. The test records the fetal heart rate and how that rate responds to fetal movements. This tells the doctors whether the fetus is getting enough oxygen. A result outside the normal range signals to investigate further, and gives the doctors appropriate time to act before a problem becomes an emergency.
The staff told us that the machine is an important addition to the hospital. Until now, pregnant women workers who came to the hospital were advised to get the test done elsewhere. They were asked to visit another government hospital or go to a private one, where the test costs around Rs 400 and Rs 900 respectively. Along with this additional cost, the referral process also took time. With the machine in the hospital, the test can be done at the ESIC Hospital itself where the woman worker can conveniently access her medical benefits.
Around 30 new pregnant women workers come to the hospital for maternity treatment every month, which is roughly 360 women a year, and nearly all of them will require this test in their last weeks of pregnancy.
Further Strengthening Healthcare for Workers
These are two hospitals that treat the disabled workers we work with every day. The equipment strengthens what their staff are already doing for women and men workers who depend on the ESIC healthcare and compensation, and we are grateful to the staff at both hospitals for telling us what it allows them to do.
We look forward to continuing to work alongside ESI and its hospitals in Manesar and Pune, along with other locations where our centers are located.
A special thanks to Laxmibai Dwarkadas Charity Trust for supporting this initiative and helping make the medical care of thousands of men and women better.
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