GMCH Trauma Centre’s model to be replicated in Latur

Nagpur: The state health department is preparing to replicate the model of the Trauma Center of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) at other places now. As an initial move, a team from Latur will be visiting Nagpur’s trauma centre on Wednesday.
A team of the health department and the department of medical education and drugs led by Latur’s civil surgeon Dr Sanjay Dhage will visit the trauma centre to see the infrastructure and facilities.
As per government sources, type III trauma centres will be planned at Renapur and Murud towns in Latur district following the model of Nagpur’s Trauma centre.
Trauma centre in-charge Dr Mohd Faizal said that it is constantly improving the services since inception. “We are treating more patients, conducting more number of surgeries and most importantly, we are successfully reducing the mortality rate,” he said.
As per the data, 4161 patients were admitted to the centre in the year 2019 and 1218 major surgeries were performed. The average mortality rate of the trauma centre remained under 21% in the year 2019.
“In 2020, we have treated 563 patients and conducted 164 surgeries. Interestingly, 56 out of these were neurosurgeries. The mortality rate came down to 10.83% in January 2020,” added Dr Faizal.
The trauma centre is soon going to add 20 more beds. All beds in this centre are equipped with ventilators.
Being a joint project of the central and state government, all patients get free of cost treatment. The patient record of the centre shows that patients are referred here from all parts of Central India. The list has names from Nanded, Mukhed (Marathwada), Hoshangabad, Jabalpur (MP) and Raipur, Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh).
DMER minister Amit Deshmukh and MLA Rohit Pawar had visited this centre during the winter session of state legislature held last year. During this visit, they had decided to establish centres based on similar model in Latur district.
“The trauma centre’s OPD is serving serious patients very effectively. Accident victims are getting treatment in the golden hour due to this centre. We are planning several new departments here in near future,” said Dr Sajal Mitra, dean of GMCH.
GMCH Trauma Centre getting better
GMCH Trauma centre became operational with 30 beds in April 2017
It equipped and staffed to provide care for patients suffering from traumatic injuries
Today, it has 70 beds where patients with injuries such as falls, road accidents are treated
In 2019, Trauma centre treated average 375 patients per month (Jan-Dec)
Average 102 surgeries were performed monthly
Mortality ratio which was 30.8% in January 2019, came down to 10.83% in January 2020
Soon, 20 more beds, ventilators will be added into the Trauma centre