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The PGIMER registers around 9,000 patients in general and special OPDs and 200 patients in the emergency OPD on average. The footfall at PGI has now crossed the pre-Covid daily numbers of about 7,500 patients visiting various outpatient departments at the institute.
During the third wave, many patients opted for teleconsultation, with the OPD numbers dropping to about 2,500.
“The numbers from across the region are increasing every year. People have faith in the quality patient care of our faculty and we cannot refuse any patient. So we must constantly work towards providing more infrastructure and services to cope with increasing numbers from the northern region of India. Last year, the OPD attendance was 26 lakh and it is constant work to keep pace,” said Prof Vivek Lal, PGI director.
According to Prof Lal, work has been going on at a good pace in the Neurosciences Centre and the plan for the Critical Care Block near the Cardiac Centre would also streamline the patient flow, as they will have both ICU beds and OTs here. The Advanced Trauma Care over more than a decade has seen more than 25 per cent increase in patients, and in the SFS meeting the Institute has put forth a demand for more academic seats in various departments and the filling up of posts of professors and assistant professors to ease the increasing rush of patients.
“We now have 72 OT beds, all operational. And the OT in the NHE is now completely functional and one MRI machine which is working 24×7. New strategic departments, as approved by a governing body like infectious diseases, geriatric medicine, and family medicine will get priority,” he said, adding that he wanted to promote a horizontal system of administration for the efficient functioning of the institute.
The PGI recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of starting renal transplant surgery, and from June 1973 to date, PGIMER has accomplished over 4,700 renal transplants, including both live and deceased, thereby saving precious lives and the institute’s renal transplant programme is one of the most prolific in the country.
From one team, Prof Lal said, three teams are now involved in the transplant programme. “The transplant wait period has been reduced, with the waiting period down from a year to about two months now and in the last one week, we have done about nine transplants. So, the constant endeavour is to keep adding to our services.”
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