Pune Cantonment hospital bags Raksha Mantri award

Pune: The Pune Cantonment Board’s Sardar Vallabhbai Patel General Hospital has bagged the ‘Raksha Mantri award’ for ‘improvement in cantonment general hospital category.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday conferred the award to Chief Executive Officer Amit Kumar at New Delhi.

This is the third consecutive year the hospital has won the award in the category. The Pune cantonment was the only cantonment among all 62 cantonments that had ICU beds for the covid patients.

“We could improve the facilities at the hospital despite having the worst financial condition of the cantonment. We managed to run 20 ICU beds and 80 Oxygen beds for the Covid patients during both the waves of the pandemic. To augment oxygen supply to the patients, the hospital has installed three oxygen generation plants with the capacity of generating 1100 LPM oxygen,” Kumar told TOI.

Kumar also gave credit to the consistent efforts made by a team of doctors and health staff.