Thiruvananthapuram: The new trauma care centre with modern state-of-the-art facilities on the lines of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College is yet to become a reality.
The work on the project is moving at a slow pace. After the completion of first phase, the work seems to have started lagging. The new trauma care centre is located near the main entrance of the hospital along the main road.
The facility is being housed in a two-storey building along with emergency care department. The Life 1 Trauma Care Centre and the emergency care wing are inter-connected with facilities of lift and ramp. Diagnostic facilities including X ray, ultra sound scan, CT scan and MRI scan would be available at this wing.
The reception area will be on the ground floor. Besides, it will house different emergency departments, surgical ICU, medical ICU, operation theatres, pre-operative and post-operative rooms and observation room with 80 beds.
A high-level team from AIIMS had given expert advise on setting up emergency medicine department.
The new facility is expected to provide highly effective trauma care. The plan is to have eight operation theatres along with other specialities.
Various specialities including surgery, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, septic operation theatre, surgery procedure room and ortho procedure room will be part of the new block.
The road adjacent to the existing casualty will be utilised as one-way for vehicles coming to the trauma centre.
Adequate parking place is being earmarked for ambulances and other emergency rescue vehicles.
The delay in the completion of MCH trauma centre has also affected similar projects in other government medical college hospitals. The MCH centre was a pilot project and other medical colleges also had plans to create similar trauma care facilities in their respective institutions.
Most medical college hospital emergency wings receive 500 to 1000 patients daily. Casualty wings of Kozhikode, Thrissur, Alappuzha, Kottayam and Manjeri medical colleges have to be upgraded.
