RCB Breathes Oxygen Into Covid Care
THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY HAS UNDERTAKEN A GLOBAL GRANT PROJECT TITLED “MASINA HOSPITAL CSSD & HFNC TO HOSPITALS” IN ROTARY’S FOCUS AREA OF DISEASE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT.
This GG project is funded by a generous donation by our Rtn. Sunita Mandelia and Rtn. Ptn. Avadhesh Mandelia through their trust Janata Janardan Health Organisation, in the fond memory of its founders Late Shri Durgaprasadji and Late Shri Suryaprakashji Mandelia. The matching grants are contributed by District 3141 and the Rotary International.
RC Ramlah of Israel, District 2490 is our international partner club for this GG project although on a NIL financial contribution basis.
AS THE PROJECT TITLE SUGGESTS, THIS PROJECT INVOLVES
(A) Setting up a CSSD facility at Masina Hospital and
(B) Providing 20 nos. HFNC (High Flow Nasal Cannula) machines to hospitals for treating Covid 19 patients
While Part (A) awaits completion, we are happy to share that Part (B) has been implemented.
At the start of the COVID pandemic, there was a rush to install ventilators for treatment of patients. However, with better understanding of the disease, the medical practitioners realised the benefits of providing oxygen at high flow rates of 30 to 60 Litres since it prevented patients from going on to ventilators which was often a point of no return. Thanks to our generous donors, we had already provided a handful of these machines to hospitals and have received excellent feedback from them. We received requests for more HFNC machines from various hospitals including the ones to which we had already donated these.
Hence, we planned to donate a total of 20 HFNC machines to the following hospitals:
3 HFNC to H. J. Doshi Ghatkopar Hindu Sabha Hospital [https://hjdghsh.in/index.html]
3 HFNC to Masina Hospital Trust Byculla [www.masinahospital.com] {In addition, we have already donated 2 machines to them from our own funds}
2 HFNC to Mother Teresa Multi Speciality Hospital Virar [http://www.motherteresahospital.com/]
3 HFNC to Prince Aly Khan Hospital [https://www.agakhanhospitals.org/Mumbai]
3 HFNC to SRV Hospital [https://www.srvhospital.com/home/main]
3 HFNC to TATA ACTREC [https://actrec.gov.in/] {In addition, we have already donated 3 machines to them from our own funds}
3 HFNC to TATA Memorial [https://tmc.gov.in/index.php/en/]
The beneficiaries of these 20 HFNC machines will be the patients who seek treatment at these hospitals.
We selected Fisher & Paykel HFNC equipment with a two-year warranty. Our experience has shown that these are plug and play machines. The beneficiary hospitals will be responsible to own and operate the equipment. All the 20 HFNC machines have been installed at the above seven hospitals.