JIPMER to beef up security arrangements in hospital

The Centrally sponsored JIPMER here will embark upon enhanced security and fire safety measures to rise to the growing demand following increase in patient turnout.
A five member team of Central Industrial Security Force will be camping in the institute for four days from September 15 and review the present security and safety measures in the hospital and institute.
It had been proposed to bring JIPMER on par with the security and fire safety systems in vogue in the other centrally sponsored institutes like AIIMS and also in Indian Institutes of Technologies across the country, a release from Director of JIPMER Dr S C Parija said today.

He said that the need for augmenting the security systems and also fire safety measures had been felt with the strength of patients at the OPDs and also number of visits being on the rise every day.
He said that around 7500 patients seek the service of the hospital in various departments daily while 25,000 visitors come to the hospital every.
Presently the JIPMER has a strength of 280security personnel and already 115 closed circuit television cameras had been installed.

A Security Advisory committee has also been functioning with the guidelines of the Senior Superintendent of Police of Puducherry Rajiv Ranjan and Col (retired) Vijayaraghavan.

A team of CISF under the head of Senior Commandant N Sridhar will be camping in JIPMER for four days from September 15. A team of fire service security team would also be camping in JIPMER from the CISF to make JIPMER one of the safest hospitals.
The CCTVs would also be upgraded in terms of coverage issue with high definition cameras.