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Boldon firm’s key role in hospital new development

A company specialising in medical gas delivery systems has completed a key role in the first phase of a £1.6m surgical centre which opened in South Tyneside District Hospital in 2016.

Boldon-based Opus Medigas has provided all the gas delivery systems for the 27-bed day surgery zone within the new surgical centre. The zone offers first-class care for patients requiring an operation but no overnight stay.

The company will also be working on Phase Two of the surgical centre this year, which will add major surgery and short-stay zones.

Opus Medigas, only established in 2014, is already recognised as one of the UK’s leading designers, suppliers and installers of specialist gas delivery systems to the health, laboratory and pharmaceutical sectors.

It recently completed work on wards upgrades and an extension to the paediatric theatre at the RVI in Newcastle and the installation of a new medical gas distribution system within Sunderland Royal Hospital’s new A&E department.

“We’re also working at the MRI suite at James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough and at Darlington Memorial Hospital too,” explained Opus Medigas Managing Director David Prior.

“We’ve completed projects at basically all of the region’s hospitals and our work for Lorne Stewart at South Tyneside’s surgical centre was part of our busy programme. Our team is of the highest calibre and one of the reasons why clients keep returning to us is that we have the skills and experience to deliver projects from the simplest to the most complex with minimal disruption,” he added.

When completed this winter the South Tyneside Surgical Centre will have a total of 69 beds and offer a fully-integrated service with a dedicated team of doctors and nurses.

Opus Medigas designs, supplies and installs gas delivery systems and equipment needed to get medical gas to patients in medical settings or laboratories where similar gases are used. ends

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