It just got better at Osmania General Hospital

Hyderabad: Osmania General Hospital (OGH), the largest tertiary care hospital in the State, has got its emergency lab upgraded and two new waiting areas for patient attenders. "With the support of donors, we are able to bring in small improvements at OGH, which are aimed at enhancing the services to patients who are mostly from the economically weaker sections," said Mujtaba Hasan Askari of Helping Hand Foundation.

The new emergency lab located in the QQDC block on the ground floor would be accessible to patients round-the-clock and have a wide range of tests from pathology, biochemistry and microbiology available to meet the requirements of the emergency cases.

The emergency lab caters to around 24,000 samples on an average every month. It is highly beneficial for emergency cases that come particularly during late night and helps in early diagnosis and treatment of patients.

The waiting area shed in old building was built to decongest wards and provide space for attenders to rest and the one outside the OPD block also to decongest the emergency entrance in the OPD block said Dr Nagender, Superintendent, OGH.