Tag: equipment

CMC New COVID ICU

new ICU beds at Kannigapuram May 2021 2bd wave surge CMC Vellore views from window

Photos of the new COVID ICU beds at Kannigapuram. The beds are some of the equipment are in place. Plus views of the surrounding area

Kannigapuram ICU Photos

ventilators with monitors unboxed at the new COVID ICU in Kannigapuram and is being unboxed

Kannigapuram ICU was dedicated on Thursday May 13th 2021 with patients admitted soon after that. Here are some photos showing its evolution before the dedicatoin! A big thank you to all the donors who helped us to buy this equipment and to the suppliers getting it to us during lockdown. The ICU is now open. […]

New ICU inaugurated at Kannigapuram Campus

staff at the inauguration by one of the new beds

13 May 2021 Director Dr. J.V. Peter opened a new 12-bed ICU facility at CMC’s Kannigapuram Campus on 13th May 2021. With all the ICU beds on the Vellore Town Campus full, there was a pressing need for additional critical care beds to save the lives of people with severe Covid-19. Staff got the ICU […]

More COVID Needs

an ambulace draws up outside CMC emergency entrance with a COVID patient and staff wait to receive him

CMC urgently needs your help to buy more equipment to look after patients with COVID. We also need donations to subsidise the costs for our poorer patients.

Eye Care

examining an elderly ladies eyes at an eye camp, ophthalmology dept, CMC Vellore

Nearly blind and her 2nd baby was due. But now she can see. You helped paid for her care. She made the journey. We did the operation. A great team, thank you.

Equipment Need for Child Health

Common diseases can cause children to go into acute kidney failure. These diseases include Dengue fever, Rickettial infection and other severe infections including Sepsis with shock. These children need dialysis in the Paediatric ICU. The best way for this to be given, when the child is on ventilator support, is by Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy. […]