Mumbai: Jagjivanram Western Railway Hospital has treated 4,890 Covid-19 patients during a pandemic and 4,053 patients issued after treatment, with a mortality rate of less than 7 percent, said WR Sumit Thakur spokesman said on Monday.
“The hospital has been at the forefront of attending the Covid emergency in the first, second and now the third wave of pandemics,” he said.
It was declared a special Covid hospital by the train ministry in April 2020 and was converted into ‘full Covid Hospital’, redesigned with 202 beds under strict locking conditions and severe resource constraints.
“Until now, around 27,000 RT PCR and rat tests have been done at home in JRH,” said Thakur.
“Also, nearly 30,000 doses of vaccine shots have been given in the hospital and the Mumbai Wr division,” he said.
In the past two years, he witnessed an increase in infrastructure and purchasing new equipment worth Rs 15.64 Crore to provide diagnostic facilities and advanced care for the purposes of train repair recipients.
The hospital, located in Mumbai Central, is a multi-special hospital 361 beds that have suppleSpections in gastrointestinal operations, gastroenterology and cardiology and serve the medical needs of railroad employees and Indian trains since the last 25 years.