KATHMANDU: Paropakar Maternity Hospital, the has halted admission of patients and surgery starting today for four days through a public notice.
The hospital administration announced that infection had been recorded in operation theaters and that admission of patients and all kinds of surgery would be halted for Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to disinfect the equipment and operation theaters.
The hospital has transferred more than a dozen patients to private and the government hospitals in the Valley after the health condition of patients deteriorated due to infection.
According to the Post-operation Ward and Maternal Intensive Care Unit, the patients were transferred to Kantipur hospital, Blue Cross Hospital, Patan Hospital, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Nagarik Hospital and Star Hospital.
Requesting anonymity, a hospital source said surgical equipment had been contaminated.
It has been learnt that Director of the hospital Dr Shila Verma held a secret meeting with heads of departments and asked them not to disseminate the news outside.
Of the more than 100 new patients the 423-bed hospital receives daily, more than 25 undergo Caesarean section.
Dr Neelam Pradhan, head of Gynecology & Obstetrics Department at TUTH said hospital should sterilise surgical equipment and wards regularly to prevent infection. She warned that infection could fester in the wound or result in urine infection or create problems in the blood and lungs after operation. Infection after Caesarean section is considered abnormal as patients are administered antibiotics, said Pradhan.
HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
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