A long-awaited trauma care centre at the MKCG Medical College Hospital here was opened after years under the direction of college Principal Prof Radha Madhav Tripathy and Superintendent Prof Charan Panda.
The authorities said that in the first phase, 16 workers and doctors would work in the centre. Efforts would be made to make the centre fully functional with indoor facilities being planned.
The officers were directed to keep the Emergency Department, Causality Department clean and the ECG machine and required surgery equipments up-to-date. The doctors and employees were instructed not leave the hospital during the duty hours.
The authorities also directed that the all the entries into the hospital would be made in one gate; there should be doctors 24 hours in the emergency ward and no vehicles except Government ambulances would be allowed in the campus. They removed all the private ambulances from the campus.