The hospital boasts of a highly experienced, skilled and compassionate anesthesia and intensive care team who look after patients with utmost commitment and as one of their own. Dr Yohannan John, well known and respected both among peers and public leads the team.

The priorities are uncompromised patient safety and attention to details. State of the art equipment and monitoring enhances safety in patient care. Regular training drills, continuing education, infection control protocols, maintenance ensure care is of the highest standard.

Pain relief is an important part of their work using regional anesthetic or parenteral techniques. A pain team closely monitors the patient comfort round the clock and has proved to be a remarkable step towards patient satisfaction. The guiding principle of the team is to make the patients stay as pain free and pleasant as possible.

The team gets involved with patient's right from the time of admission through their surgery till they go home. This feature has made many a patient, a friend of the team for life!

PROFILE OF DR YOHANNAN JOHN M.D. Anaesthesia

Sameer (name changed to respect privacy) is a 20 year old. One night Sameer was travelling by bus which met with a serious accident. Sameer was impaled by a 1 inch wide rod that entered through the front of his head, went through his mouth, and exited thru the bottom of his neck. This damaged his upper spine but missed many vital brain centres. What made this even more challenging was that the accident occurred more than 200kms away from SPARSH Hospital. He was brought into the Casualty Resuscitation Room at SPARSH Hospital. He was in a lot of pain. This created tremendous agony and restlessness. He was in shock. It became critical to stabilise him so that his movements did not aggravate the already serious life threatening injury. In addition to this it was critical to diagnose the extent of internal injuries and to detect the degree of proximity to vital centres. He was stabilised and transferred to the Operation Suite. The emergency response team was in place to ensure that the necessary life support systems were in place. During surgery he had to undergo many different types of complex surgeries and spent close to three months in the ICU with great success. He was discharged about 4 months after he was admitted. Today Manish has recovered fully and is back on the road to finishing his engineering degree.