LUCKNOW: Even as KGMU has been converted as a Covid hospital, the Trauma Centre will continue to function as usual. KGMU Vice-Chancellor Lt Gen (retd) Dr Bipin Puri said, “Since we don’t know which patient will be Covid positive, we will convert the ground floor as a holding area where RT-PCR test will be conducted on patients. Till their report comes, they will receive emergency treatment in the holding area. If positive, they will be shifted to Covid hospital, otherwise they will be shifted to the department concerned in the trauma building.”
LUCKNOW: Even as KGMU has been converted as a Covid hospital, the Trauma Centre will continue to function as usual. KGMU Vice-Chancellor Lt Gen (retd) Dr Bipin Puri said, “Since we don’t know which patient will be Covid positive, we will convert the ground floor as a holding area where RT-PCR test will be conducted on patients. Till their report comes, they will receive emergency treatment in the holding area. If positive, they will be shifted to Covid hospital, otherwise they will be shifted to the department concerned in the trauma building.”
The government had initially decided to convert entire KGMU as Covid hospital from April 19, stating that only cardiology and gynaecology emergencies will be addressed by it. However, sources said that both PGI and RML informed the government that they did not have expertise to take over trauma cases. KGMU also stated that trauma patients after stabilisation had to be shifted out to departments concerned for further treatment which will now be a problem as all wards will have Covid patients.
TOI had also highlighted how converting a trauma centre into a Covid facility would leave emergency patients hanging from a thread, especially when in non-Covid times too a large number of emergency cases are diverted to KGMU’s trauma centre by other government hospitals. Several KGMU teachers were also raising concerns in the interest of patients.
Following these deliberations, sources said that it has been agreed upon that KGMU will lend its trauma expertise as before but once trauma patients have been stabilised at the trauma centre, the health department will have to make sure that patients are taken over by PGI and RML.
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