3 more trauma centres soon

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, OCT. 17.

The Delhi Health Minister, Dr.A.K. Walia, today announced that three more trauma centres, equipped with state-of-the-art technology, are being set up in the Capital to deal with the increasing number of accident cases and those requiring specialised neuro and orthopedic surgery. These centres would be in addition to the already existing Shushrut Trauma Centre.

Stating that the aim was to decentralise the network of trauma management, Dr. Walia said one centre had started functioning from today at the GTB Hospital in East Delhi, one 140-bed Trauma Centre was proposed to be set up in the Deen Dayal Upadhaya Hospital at Hari Nagar in West Delhi shortly and a 100-bed Trauma Centre was expected to come up in Vasant Kunj area of South Delhi.

The 40-bed Trauma Centre at GTB had been equipped with latest CT scan machine and would cater to treatments like gynaecologic, maternity and family welfare. The CT Scan and MRI facility had, for the first time, been started at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital.

Dr. Walia said when he took over, there was a shortage of hospitals which functioned round the clock. Only six hospitals were providing 24-hour services which was insufficient for such a large population. At that time itself, it was decided that this aspect needed to be tackled.

The new Trauma Centres would have the services of CATS ambulances and would also act as disaster management centres in case of emergency. In addition, it had also been decided to set up blood banks at all centres to provide on-the-spot help to patients.

At the same time, Dr. Walia said the idea to come up with more Trauma Centres was to decentralise the whole process of emergency and specialised treatment. In the present circumstances, patients are being rushed to the Shushrut Trauma Centre from all parts of the city. With such Centres coming up in various parts of the Capital, the accident victims could now be rushed to the nearest Centre so that treatment is provided on time and in an efficient manner. Such Centres have become more a necessity in a city like Delhi which has a population of around 1.40 crores and over 30 lakh vehicles.

With regard to the trans-Yamuna area, Dr. Walia said the Lal Bahadhur Shastri Hospital at Khichripur had started functioning to its full capacity of 100 beds. The construction of another 100-bed Dr. Hedgewar Arogya Sansthan was going on and it was expected the OPD would start functioning from March next year.

The entire hospital is expected to be made functional by the end of 2002. Construction work on the super speciality hospital at Tahirpur, the Child Specialist Hospital at Geeta Colony and General Hospital at Shastri Park would be started by this year itself, and these are expected to be commissioned by 2003.

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