Bhubaneswar: As another step towards strengthening of trauma care facility in Odisha, the State Govt sanctioned Rs 75.70 cr for the construction of a modern trauma care centre at Nuapada district headquarter hospital (DHH).
According administrative approval to the project, Secretary Health and Family Welfare Shalini Pandit directed the executing officers to complete the project within the scheduled time for avoiding the possibility of cost and time overrun.
Available information showed that this centre would be developed as a level-3 trauma care centre with all modern equipment, lab, imaging facility, observation room, oxygen, ventilator etc as per the guidelines of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
Sources say, as of now, 106 trauma care facilities have been set up in different Government hospitals of the State with a total capacity of 1,560 beds at a particular point of time.
Besides, 18 trauma care centres of the private super specialty hospitals have also been empanelled for trauma care.
It may be pertinent here to mention that earlier State Govt also created a trauma care fund for cashless treatment of accident victims in empanelled private hospital trauma care centres of level-1 type.
The major empanelled private sector trauma centres included Ashwani Trauma Centre, Cuttack, AMRI Hospital, Bhubaneswar, KIMs, Bhubaneswar, Hi-Tech Medical College and Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Kalinga Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Utkal Institute of Medical Science, Bhubaneswar, Medicover Hospital, Visakhapatnam, Rama Krishna Care Hospital, Raipur, JP Hospital Rourkela, IMS & SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Sunshine Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Padmini Care, DRIEMS Tangi, Cuttack, etc.
