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Time of India
26-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
State govt to tighten blood safety protocols after transfusion death
Jaipur: The Rajasthan govt on Monday announced plans to strengthen blood transfusion protocols across all state hospitals following the death of a 23-year-old pregnant woman at SMS Hospital due to a wrong blood transfusion last Wednesday. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Health Minister Gajendra Singh Khimsar convened an emergency meeting on Monday with superintendents of hospitals affiliated with SMS Medical College and other medical education department officials to address the incident and implement new safety measures. "The life of every patient admitted to the hospital is invaluable and negligence at any level of treatment cannot be tolerated," Khimsar said during the meeting. The health minister said that under the Rajasthan Digital Health Mission, several key changes will be implemented, including mandatory inclusion of blood group information in patients' Ayushman Bharat Health Account ID (ABHA ID). This digital integration aims to ensure accuracy and swift access to critical information during emergencies. The minister ordered strict adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in ICUs and critical care wards across govt medical institutions. New guidelines mandate the constant presence of senior doctors and residents in these wards, along with deployment of only trained nursing and paramedical staff. Hospital administrators will be required to conduct regular inspections of ward conditions and blood bank operations, with instructions to address any deficiencies immediately. The minister emphasised that strict action would be taken against staff found negligent in their duties.
Time of India
24-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
ET Digital UP Conclave: ‘Technology empowering governance, driving industrial growth in UP'
Governance is empowered through digital technology, and the digital push in turn fuels industrial growth, experts said during a panel discussion on 'Digital Uttar Pradesh: Engine for Industrial Growth' during the ET Digital UP Conclave on Friday. Mission director, National Health Mission, UP, and secretary, medical, health and family welfare department, Pinky Jowel said, "Many new things have been introduced in the health sector in last two years. For example, E Kavach is a comprehensive digital health application that has data on all health schemes. It incorporates a registry of every individual in the state." "Every ASHA worker has smartphone and laptop. Similar is the case with ANMs and community health officers. They capture all data related to health systems into E Kavach, which helps us analyse and form policies for future. So, this is a digital revolution that even our lowest field workers can record all immunisation, screening of diabetes and hypertension, and we are adding more health issues to it," she said. "ABHA ID is another innovation incorporated along with E Kavach. It is a kind of smart card with a QR code, and it has the digitised health ID of an individual," she added. "The govt is working on technology-enabled governance, and to ensure this, we must take care of the basic needs of technology user. It should be error-free, transparent, and simple to use. The biggest example of technology-enabled governance is the booking of railway tickets. Earlier, it was tough to get a ticket in offline mode, but now, within seconds, a ticket is booked," said CEO, Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDA), Mayur Maheshwari. "The power of technology is such that with meaningful interventions, we can make daily lives of common people easy. UPSIDA's digital platform was earlier used by around 800 users, but now around 11,000 people are using it monthly," he added. "In UP, 98% of industries are MSMEs, and the number is huge. This sector has less automation and a huge number of employees. In industrial areas, all land approval, bank loans, and incentive disbursement are online," said secretary, MSME and Export Promotion and Infrastructure & Industrial Development Department, Pranjal Yadav. He said the govt's focus was to make interactions online to make things easy for artisans and craftsmen. "We have come up with an Alexa kind of device, with sticky films that capture pathogens. It hovers over farms and detects pathogens, which is otherwise a challenging task in agriculture sector," said national sales head, ABM Knowledgeware Ltd, Lokesh Sharma. The session was moderated by managing director, Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Nikhil Agarwal. Get the latest lifestyle updates on Times of India, along with Brother's Day wishes , messages and quotes !
