DME has given the proposal to the Ministry of Health to upgrade the trauma centre and burn unit of JA Hospital. The Ministry has received the proposal from Indore and Jabalpur also to upgrade the units.
For several months, continuous efforts are in process to upgrade the trauma centre and burn unit from level-2 to level-1. For the upgradation of the centre and burn unit, a meeting was held in New Delhi with Under Secretary Sanjay Pant.
In the meeting, DME Dr GS Patel, Trauma Centre in-charge Dr Achal Gupta were present along with Jabalpur, Indore and Bhopal Trauma Centre in-charges. Everybody has given the proposal to upgrade the trauma centre. After long exhausted meeting, the proposal of Gwalior, Indore and Jabalpur were accepted on verbal basis. Ministry will examine the proposal through technical staff. After the test from technical staff, the administration, financial and other things will be provided.
According to the plan of Health Ministry, the National Highway cities are going to get upgraded from level-2 to level-1. According to the plan, the accidents that are taking place on Highway will be supported by Trauma Centre to provide proper medication to the patients.
DME Dr Patel has informed that the Trauma Centre of JA Hospital will receive Rs12 crore to make it on level-1. Through this fund, they will use it for infrastructure, staff and other important things. Also they will provide the facility of MRI machine.
The upgraded Trauma Centre will receive the patients and they need not go for private hospitals as they will get adequate facilities for their treatment.
Due to high influence of dengue, the National Institute of Viralogy has received six test kits after it was finished earlier. Due to holiday from November 11 to 13, the dengue test couldn’t be made.
The ElISA test procedure can be made in GRMC’s microbiology lab only. The last kit was available in Medical college to test the sample on Tuesday. From Pune, six test kits were brought. If it is going to be late, the patients will have to face the problems in their treatment.
23 patients have tested for dengue. In Gwalior, 12 have tested positive for dengue followed by Morena six patients, Shivpuri two patients along with Bhind, Chhatarpur and UP - one each. Malaria department has done the survey in which they have found dengue larva.
District Malaria Office Dr Manoj Kaurav has informed that from November 12, the medical team will start the survey again.