The Fethiye State Hospital inaugurated a new camera system to enable families to communicate with the patients in the intensive care unit.
The hospital with a capacity of 200 beds was put into service in 2005 and uses technological developments for the benefit of patients. The administration first started to relay the activities in the operating room on the electronic screen and now having live broadcasts from the intensive care unit. Patients in the intensive care unit are shown to the families by way of cameras. Families, who are not allowed into the intensive care unit, are observing the status of the patients on the screen.
Birol Durukan, Chief of Staff of the Fethiye State Hospital, informed that this method was developed due to the wish of the families who wanted to enter the intensive care unit and now a connection was established between the waiting room and the intensive care. Durukan pointed out that families were not allowed into the intensive care unit because of hygienic conditions and that they were benefiting from technological developments to overcome this issue.
Durukan commented as follows: “In view of insistent demands, we set up this system at the intensive care units. By mobile cameras, families can see and converse with the patients. They follow the status of the patients with their own eyes.” Families in the waiting room of the intensive care unit also remarked that they were highly pleased with this recent technological development.
