The Civil Engineering department : is responsible for construction and maintenance of buildings, water supply, sanitation and concreting roads. During the year 2017-2018, a total of 22 major and 48 minor projects were completed. Further 14 major projects and 15 minor projects are under progress. It is to be noted that many jobs having Support Services value less than Rs 1,00,000.00 were also executed. In the area of maintenance, total of 22,719 job works in the categories of masonry, plumbing, carpentry, thatty & furniture repairs have been carried out. Apart from the above, routine white washing and painting works were also completed.
The Electrical Engineering department : is responsible also for fire safety, and maintains 29 transformers, 24 generators and 78 lifts. During 2017-18, 31 major projects and 94 minor projects were completed.
The Electronic Engineering department installs, calibrates, tests and maintains CMC’s biomedical and electronic equipment and maintains centralised systems for pneumatic chutes, outpatient paging, nurse paging, chapel relay, surveillance cameras, audio-video equipment and emergency communication.
Environmental Engineering : provides uninterrupted drinking water supply to the Main Hospital, Kagithapattarai and Schell Eye Hospital campuses (20.60 Lakh litres/ day to the CMC town campus, 2.35 lakh litres/ day to the Kagithapattarai campus and 45,000 litres/ day to the Schell campus) and maintains a sewage/wastewater treatment plant.
The Mechanical Engineering department : oversees the maintenance of hospital equipment at CMC and peripheral units. It provides steam and medical gases to the OTs and critical care units. The Asset Recycling Office of Mechanical Engineering Department has been rendering the services of condemnation of equipment against replacement as well as recycling of usable condemned equipment within the institution, peripheral units and to Mission hospitals.
During 2017-18: a new OE station and 2-way diverter was installed in Kamala Nehru Ward (renovation), provision for online application for GAAT-A Committee approval was provided and new services like online fire reporting and incident reporting were introduced. A disposal counter was initiated and set up by BME to receive defective items and to claim new against them from the main stores. BME actively participated in academic activities by conducting classes for Allied Health Courses on biomedical engineering, maintenance and the electrical safety of medical equipment.
In the town campus, it maintains 7 water sumps, 22 main overhead tanks, 220 individual water tanks and, for firefighting, 4 sumps, and 1 tank. In the CMC Town Campus, it maintains 4 recycle water sumps, 60 main over head tanks and Sewage Treatment Plant to supply recycled water for toilet flushing and gardening purpose.
During 2017-18, The department has installed the following : Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) plant 3 Nos. x 11 KL behind ‘A’ Block on monthly rental charges, 3 source fully automatic oxygen mini manifold in Main OR, New medical air compressor of capacity 189 cfm (HX2T – 40 NP) in Medical gas section and Medical gas digital alarm system in CB OR. Two major projects, Good Samaritan Canteen kitchen equipment and KN Ward– Medical Gases pipeline installation project were completed.
