As a part of efforts to create secure working circumstances for well being staff, Code Grey protocol might be applied in all hospitals, Health Minister Veena George has stated.

She was inaugurating a youngsters’s HDU (High Dependency Unit) oxygen ward at Government Victoria Hospital and a hub-and-spoke mannequin microbiology lab at District Hospital.

“Attacks on health-care professionals will not be tolerated and legal protection including maximum penalty and imprisonment will be ensured to prevent such incidents. The protocol involves extensive procedures to prevent and manage violence. An emergency warning system will also be part of it and at present, safety audits are being conducted in hospitals for this,” she stated.

Ms George added that there had been a big drop within the variety of folks dying because of cardiac points in Kerala. “Cathlabs have been set up in hospitals in 11 districts and more heart surgeries are being conducted through the Hridyam scheme. Such decentralised treatment facilities further improves the health-care system of the State. Since 70% of the people in Kerala depend on government hospitals, the objective of the government is to give priority and better treatment to the economically backward,” stated the Minister, who added that talks had been on to start out IVF labs for infertility therapy in 4 districts of the State together with Kollam.

While the kids’s HDU oxygen ward was arrange at a value of ₹35.23 lakh, the hub-and-spoke mannequin microbiology lab at District Hospital was arrange spending ₹16.7 lakh. Samples collected at different hospitals within the district may be transported to District Hospital for testing.

M. Mukesh, MLA, presided over the perform whereas district panchayat president P.Okay. Gopan, vice chairman Sreeja Harish, District Medical Officer (Health) Okay.S. Shinu, District Hospital superintendent D. Vasantadas, Victoria Hospital superintendent V. Krishnaveni, and National Health Mission district programme supervisor Dev Kiran, had been current.