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CMC COVID Summary May 21st

Kannigapuram ICU with patients at staff, and full

A summary of CMC Vellore’s work fighting COVID. Plus photos of the Kannigapuram ICU opened last week.

COVID Swabs

ppe is hot and outside with no fan or AC taking a swab is a sweaty job

CMC is making full use of the outside areas around the hospital. The outside areas reduce the spread of COVID. Also, the kiosk to take a COVID swab from asymptomatic patients is in the Alpha Clinic area, outside by the cafe. Spare a thought for the staff doing these swabs. Staff wear full PPE to […]

Moving to Kannigapuram ICU

Photos of when patients were transferred by the CMC ICU teams to the new ICU beds in the Kannigapuram hospital.

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 […]

Covid-19 Summary

emergency entrance 12th may 2021 caovid 2nd surge 6 ambulances and no beds

More than 68,000 Covid tests done More than 12,000 patients treated in hospital 25,000 vaccinations (doses) Currently 1,074 covid care beds available on three campuses, including 100 ICU beds Nearly 400 people in CMC Covid Home Care Isolation Programme Covid ICU at Kannigapuram opened. Patients being transferred there. ICU Equipment and portable oxygen concentrators arriving

The Hole in Jeba’s Heart

The hole in Jeba’s heart made her weak and sickly. In and out of hospital as a child, injection after injection, you would expect her to hate the sight of a nurse. Instead, a seed was planted that grew into a passion to serve others through the healing ministry. Hole made whole In what seemed […]

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.

Thank you

s ward ICU 2020-04-09 newly created

Thank you We want to thank all our friends for your overwhelming response in helping us to fight the COVID-19 Pandemic during the first wave in 2020! so Thank you for your help in the first surge With your generous contributions, we were able to prepare and respond to the COVID Pandemic. You can read […]

Messengers of Peace

COVID ppe worn by obstetric and gynaecology theatre staff during the first surge

CMC: Committed to serving “a unique insight into the commitmentand breadth of the CMC family” With the pandemic sweeping the world for the second, and in some places 3rd time, CMC Vellore remains committed to serving and caring for our patients. We continue to adapt our services to look after our patients and provide quality […]