Health and Family Welfare Secretary Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra on Monday said the proposed trauma care units at various hospitals in the State, which were approved by the Union Government during the 11th Five-Year Plan, would be fully operational within three months.
Chairing a review meeting at the State Secretariat, Mohapatra directed the concerned authorities to speed up the construction works of the units.
The meeting revealed that during the 11th Five-Year Plan, the Central Government had approved Rs 44.90 crore to the State for setting up five trauma care units. As per the proposal, while level one trauma care unit is being set up at the SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack, level two trauma units are coming up at the MKCG Medical College Hospital, Brahmapur and Baleswar District Headquarters Hospital and level three unit at Bhadrak and Khurda District Headquarters Hospitals in the first phase.
later, the Centre included the VSS Medical College Hospital, Burla and Rourkela Government Hospital in the list and sanctioned funds for setting up of level three trauma care units.
In the first phase the Centre has sanctioned Rs 20.33 crore.
The meeting decided that as the Baleswar and Bhadrak District Headquarters Hospitals have already utilised their sanctioned amounts, the State Government would soon propose to the Centre to release the remaining funds.
The meeting further decided that recruitment of employees and procurement of necessary equipments for the trauma care units would be made within a month as per the guidelines of the Central Government. As per the decision, the heads of the orthopedic departments of the concerned hospitals would work as the chiefs of the units.