Patient parties barred entry into OT, ICU, ICCU
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, August 01 2022:
RIMS has advised patients' family members and relatives not to accompany their loved ones inside OTs, ICUs and ICCUs of the hospital.
In a notification, RIMS Medical Superintendent Prof N Sanjib Singh informed that Operation Theatres, Intensive Care Units and Intensive Coronary Care Units are specialized areas of the Hospital where only highly skilled medical staff deliver their services to the patients in need of these specialized services, mostly lifesaving services.
Therefore, people other than these skilled professionals are not permitted to be in the OTs, ICUs and ICCUs.
He said that patients' family members and relatives should not be allowed to accompany their loved ones in these areas, while adding that, the practice of assigning two or more duties simultaneously to a skilled staff shall be discontinued.