Nagpur: The Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) will start a
trial casualty at the trauma centre (TC) from Tuesday. But it will be another fortnight or so before the TC starts a full-fledged casualty.
The move comes following the directives of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which reviewed the working of TC at the GMCH a month back.
GMCH dean Dr Abhimanyu Niswade said though the PAC had directed to start the casualty immediately during its review visit on May 9, it was not so easy to start TC casualty due to varied reasons, including the development of infrastructure required for attending to the patients in the casualty.
“However, we are trying our best to start it at the earliest. The hospital entrance requires changes to allow entry of ambulance directly into the triage area. The entrance must be widened. A desk is needed where the staff can verify if the patient needs to be brought in into the TC or he can be dealt at at the GMCH itself,” said the dean.
He said that the TC is starting a trial casualty to identify the requirements daily so that when the full-fledged casualty is in place, it is faultless. Currently, all the patients first go to GMCH casualty from where trauma patients are brought to TC on a stretcher on the open road across it.
Gopaldas Agrawal, who headed the committee, had repeated his directives including setting up of the casualty in the second hearing at Mumbai on May 29.
The PAC had also suggested a 20-30 bed surgical intensive care unit, a central monitoring unit in the ICU, mobile CAT, MRI and ultrasonography machines, increasing beds to 90 (at present it has 72) and step-down wards at the earliest.
