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Trauma care at VIMS likely
The Minister inaugurated third and fourth floors of Super Speciality Block being built at a cost of Rs 11 crore, contributed by various Public Sector Undertakings as a part of their Corporate Social Responsibility at the King George Hospital on Sunday.
Visakhapatnam: Aiming at providing immediate best medicare to the victims of road accidents and other mishaps, the government is seriously considering idea of setting up a Trauma Care Centre at the Visakha Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS), informed Medical and Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas.
The Minister inaugurated third and fourth floors of Super Speciality Block being built at a cost of Rs 11 crore, contributed by various Public Sector Undertakings as a part of their Corporate Social Responsibility at the King George Hospital on Sunday.
Later, he told reporters that after noticing the problem of shifting the victims of road or fire mishaps all the way from the accident spot to the KGH overcoming traffic jams, the government was actively considering to set up a Trauma Care Centre at the VIMS, located at the entrance of the city.
He informed that it was also under consideration to set up sophisticated Level-1 medicare wings in all hospitals in the city to treat those suffer burn injuries. He said that all 7,600 students studying in government medical colleges would be given tabs after loading necessary medical information.
Dr Kamineni felt that the present five per cent scarcity of doctors across the State would be reduced to two per cent with the shifting of 120 doctors from Telangana to AP.
As the poor people had high hopes on getting good service, he said, daily nearly 3,000 patients were visiting the KGH from north coastal Andhra districts.
Hospital Superintendent B Madhusudana Babu, MLAs Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar, P Vishnu Kumar Raju, ZP Chairperson Lalam Bhavani, Vice-Chancellor of NTR Health University Dr T Raviraj, Andhra Medical College principal Dr S V Kumar and others were present.
