State-Of-The-Art Tech Installed At Children’s Heart Hospital In Suva

The equipment and technology installed recently at the Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Heart Hospital is state of the art in all aspects.

Ray Morris, a top biomedical engineer from the United States of America, has just finished equipping the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the $25 million hospital.

The equipment are the best and latest. According to Mr Morris, it is on par with the best hospitals in the USA.

“One of the features of the equipment is that all information from the machines can be sent and displayed to any specialist in the world in real time,” Mr Morris said.

“This hospital is connected via data lines. If we have an issue with a child and if we need outside expertise, we can get online and send the information anywhere in the world to a professional.

“They can look at the x-rays or what the monitors connected to child are doing. This makes it a worldwide collaborative hospital.”

Mr Morris said this technology would greatly assist remote teams. Mr Morris believes the hospital is a real gem for the nation. Mr Morris and his son Sam have spent the past six weeks installing the equipment in the ICU. They will now move onto the operating theatre. Hospital director Dr Krupali Tappoo said it was always their desire to have the best people installing the equipment at the hospital.

She said the hospital, which is free to all children, would open its doors in the next few months.

She said initially it would be volunteers from abroad filling in specialist roles, but this would change as capacity building happens.

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