Bhagalpur to get trauma centre

BHAGALPUR: With an aim to provide emergency healthcare for emergency resuscitation, surgery, intensive care and other medical facilities to patients suffering from serious injuries, the Sadar hospital here is endeavouring to establish a ‘trauma centre’ soon.
It would be of level-III, to be equipped and staffed to provide emergency medicare to patients suffering from various traumatic injuries, including accidents and vehicle collisions.
Bhagalpur civil surgeon (CS) Dr Umesh Sharma, when contacted, said efforts were on and a trauma centre at Sadar hospital would start functioning very soon. He said steps were being taken for adding medical infrastructure besides capacity building for the trauma centre.
“We will need three orthopaedic surgeons, medical experts trained in treating patients under medical emergencies, anaesthetics, operation theatre assistants and nursing and paramedical staff for 24 hours monitoring of patients suffering from traumatic injuries. We will also need oxygen-beds, advance life support ambulance service, blood of different groups, Dr Sharma said and added that the trauma centre would be of level-III in order to provide initial evaluation and stabilization (surgically, if needed) to the trauma patients.