In the commissionerate headquarter Hazaribag burn patients are facing acute problem of treatment in Sheikh Bhikari Medical College and Hospital, because there is no separate burn ward in the hospital. The burn patients are kept in the general ward with other patients. There is no special care or attention that a burn patient required.
Before opening the medical college in Hazaribag there was a burn ward in the Sadar hospital. The patients who were admitted to the Sadar hospital, they are used to be in the special burn ward.
After opening of the medical college in Hazaribag, the Sadar hospital was handed over to the medical college and the burn ward lost its identity.
The burn patients, who reached the hospital and got admission, they were kept in general ward. The hospital is used to refer serious patients to RIMS Ranchi, because there were no equipment for proper treatment of burn patients in the hospital. In the hospital no cover is available to the burn patients.
Generally, serious burn patients died on the way to the Ranchi. They were referred to Ranchi without primary treatment to the serious burn patients.
The Superintendent of the SBMCH Binod Kumar Singh said that there must be separate burn unit in the hospital. The ward must be separate from the other wards with air condition.
The Civil Surgeon of Hazaribag Dr. SP Singh said that a separate burn unit in the hospital campus will be constructed very soon. He accepted that now a days proper care and treatment to the burn patients is not available there.