Trauma care unit proposed in JIPMER

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, OCT. 16. The Deputy Chief Whip of the Congress (I) in Lok Sabha, Mr M.O.H. Farook, said the Centrally-administered Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, JIPMER here should become an institution on par with All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi.

Inaugurating a two-day Continuing Medical Education programme on ``Acute Trauma Care of Millennium'' organised recently he said Pondicherry should become an excellent centre of education. Pondicherry and Karaikal regions have been given Rs. 50 lakhs each to establish Trauma care centres from the MP Area Development Fund. The high incidence of fatalities was the reason to allocate the amount for trauma care, he said while calling for prompt action to stabilise the injured in accidents. He also stressed the need to start a neurological unit in JIPMER and in General hospital.

A well-equipped ambulance would also be provided to ensure immediate transfer of victims. He said medical care, now available without discrimination to all patients from Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu, should be available on a higher, nobler scale at the hospitals which had already established a good record in healthcare services.

The Director of JIPMER, Dr. R. Sambasiva Rao, said according to statistics there was a fatal road accident every thirteen minutes. The country, having one percent of total vehicular population of the world, accounted for six per cent of total accidents. The institute had sent a proposal to the Centre for establishing a trauma care unit in the institute.

He said there would be full cooperation between JIPMER and Pondicherry hospitals to make the town a model in the area of trauma care.

The Director of Health and Family Welfare Services, Dr. Thamma Rao, who released a book on Trauma Care, said a trauma care ward was being readied in the upcoming new block in the general hospital here. While laying of the East Coast Road was a mark of fast development in the socio-economic sector, the number of accidents on this stretch of road was alarming. Not less than 500 accidents took place every year.

He said CME had been mandatory for doctors who would not otherwise be in a position to renew registration with the Medical Council without undergoing the programme.

The Medical Superintendent, Dr. G. Subramania Reddy, said the CME was very useful and bore relevance to the themes of the day. The Head of Urology Department, Dr. Rathina Janarthanan, spoke.

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