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Medigas completes emergency contract

A rapidly expanding medical gas firm has completed a specialist contract for the major upgrade and extension of the Emergency Department (previously known as A&E) at Sunderland Royal Hospital.

The £18m re-development of Sunderland’s emergency department provides an improved arrival point, reception and waiting areas, new assessment, consultation and treatment areas, specialist rooms for resuscitation and isolation as well as X-Ray, ultra-sound, a high dependency unit, laboratories and pharmacy. The upgrade also includes a new dedicated paediatric emergency department.

Opus Medigas was awarded the contract to install the specialist medical gas delivery systems required in the new emergency department (ED) for City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust. The Boldon based firm installed oxygen medical air and vacuum systems to all patient areas to ensure critical to life medical gases are available immediately at the point of care.

As part of the project Opus Medigas installed over 2000m of specialist pipework as well as alarm systems to monitor each individual gas system to provide medical staff with maximum confidence that all critical to life supplies are there when required.

Opus Medigas Managing Director David Prior said: “The new emergency department at Sunderland Royal provides first-class emergency facilities for local residents so our dedicated medical engineering team were delighted to be a part of the project team.

“Our medical gas specialists worked closely with construction colleagues to connect the critical to life air and gas systems to the hospital’s overall distribution systems, whilst ensuring there was no disruption to other departments, treatment areas and patient care throughout the project.”

Sunderland Royal Hospital is a 970-bedded acute hospital which is part of City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust’s former A&E department was originally built in 1978 and the new emergency department will help it handle the growing number of patients coming through the emergency system every day.

The new Emergency Department, which is located off Kayll Road on the main hospital site will result in a much-improved environment for patients and for staff working in the unit.

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.

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