New GMCH dean plans better casualty services
Snehlata Shrivastav | tnn | Mar 12, 2019, 05:48 IST
Nagpur: With the aim of improving health delivery at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), the new dean Dr Sajal Mitra has initiated many steps to strengthen the casualty and ensure presence of senior doctors (lecturers) from all departments round-the-clock. The hospital will also have a public relations base for better coordination between doctors and patients 24x7.
Since there are doctors available in the OPD from 8am to 2pm everyday, Dr Mitra said a medical social superintendent will be stationed between 3 and 10pm at new public relations base to be created near the radiology department. Patients can directly contact him for any emergency in diagnosis and treatment.
Since this person himself will be a qualified doctor (MD/MS) he can see patients himself too in emergency. He will also have to act like a social worker and be a link between the dean and the patients and the medical superintendent and the patients.
This will be in addition to the existing round-the-clock casualty. The dean said this will help direct the patients to the right place for diagnosis or treatment.
Dr Mitra is also ensuring that besides the senior residents from all departments, one lecturer each from all these departments, especially surgery, medicine, gynaecology, orthopaedics and anaesthesia will also be available for emergency patients. “This will make decision making much appropriate at the right time doing away with any ambiguity in the treatment,” he said.
To add to better emergency services, Trauma Centre’s OPD will also be strengthened. Already, all surgical interventions are being dealt with effectively there itself. If there are any patients who are required to be dealt with by the surgery department they are referred to GMCH department. The public relations base will also help these patients avoid running to different departments or doctors.
The dean said the PWD had agreed to renovate all toilets in the college and hospital and make them more hygienic and pleasant. The girls hostels will be given recreational facilities like table tennis, badminton etc so they need not move out in the night in college premises for this.
Since there are doctors available in the OPD from 8am to 2pm everyday, Dr Mitra said a medical social superintendent will be stationed between 3 and 10pm at new public relations base to be created near the radiology department. Patients can directly contact him for any emergency in diagnosis and treatment.
Since this person himself will be a qualified doctor (MD/MS) he can see patients himself too in emergency. He will also have to act like a social worker and be a link between the dean and the patients and the medical superintendent and the patients.
This will be in addition to the existing round-the-clock casualty. The dean said this will help direct the patients to the right place for diagnosis or treatment.
Dr Mitra is also ensuring that besides the senior residents from all departments, one lecturer each from all these departments, especially surgery, medicine, gynaecology, orthopaedics and anaesthesia will also be available for emergency patients. “This will make decision making much appropriate at the right time doing away with any ambiguity in the treatment,” he said.
To add to better emergency services, Trauma Centre’s OPD will also be strengthened. Already, all surgical interventions are being dealt with effectively there itself. If there are any patients who are required to be dealt with by the surgery department they are referred to GMCH department. The public relations base will also help these patients avoid running to different departments or doctors.
The dean said the PWD had agreed to renovate all toilets in the college and hospital and make them more hygienic and pleasant. The girls hostels will be given recreational facilities like table tennis, badminton etc so they need not move out in the night in college premises for this.
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