St. John’s Medical College Hospital has been at the forefront of the battle against COVID-19. Now more than a year after its onset, after seeing a brief lull, we are again battling the disease with renewed dedication. The surge in the numbers this year has called for extra-ordinary responses on multiple fronts and our staff have continued to work long hours, despite seeing many of their colleagues fall prey to the virus. It is the grace of the Almighty, that all but one of our staff have recovered after being infected.
We inaugurated a COVID Care Centre in August 2020, thanks largely to the donations from the Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives and Titan Company Limited. This Centre houses a 24-bed Intensive Care Unit, a 24-bed High Dependency and a 48-bed Isolation Unit.

Our stand-alone Fever Clinic was started at the beginning of the pandemic and continues to function everyday. To date, we have catered to almost 20,000 patients here and again after a brief downturn we are back to seeing more than 150 patients daily at this facility. Rapid Antigen Tests and RT-PCR tests are done here and the patients advised accordingly. We continue to provide Home Monitoring Services through Teleconsultation and a large number of patients have benefitted from this.
St. John’s Hospital has been mandated to provide a large proportion of our beds to the Government of Karnataka/ Bruhut Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike. These beds are rapidly expanding and very soon at least 900 of our hospital beds will be occupied by COVID-19 patients – 700 of these will be given to the Government.

St. John’s management and the Alumni Association are jointly working to raise funds to support the COVID work of the hospital.
The current immediate need is in three areas.

.The current immediate need is in these areas
1.       Oxygen support –
a.       Additional oxygen @ 8000cuM per day
b.       Bedside oxygen concentrators – 10 litre capacity only – 25 machines
2.       PPEs – which include the full suit and N 95 mask                                       3.       Food costs for patients and frontline workers
4.       Hand Sanitizer (200L/day)
5.      Portable ultrasound for the COVID ICUs
6.      MRI compatible ventilator
Break up of costs :

Item	Unit costs Rs.	Units	Total
Daily oxygen supplementation	Rs. 20/ cuM	8000cuM per day for 12 days	1920000
Portable ultrasound for COVID ICU	18,00,000	1	1800000
PPEs	500	10000	5000000
Hand Sanitizer (200L/day)	40,000	10	400000
Portable MRI compatible ventilator	1950000	1	1950000
Food for patients and frontline workers	200	15000	3000000
Oxygen concentrators ( 10 litre)	80000	10	800000
TOTAL			14870000

All donations in Indian Rupees (INR) will have tax exemption benefits under 80G.

Please contact any of the following for more details

Dr. Bobby Joseph, Vice Dean (Community Outreach) on 9900163821 or b.joseph@stjohns.in

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