Doon Group of Hospital has also pulled up its socks with an aim to provide best and round the clock medical assistance to victims during Holi festival. Apart from reserving beds in the emergency department of the hospital, hospital administration claimed that specialist doctors are instructed to available round the clock.
The Hospital administration claimed one additional Emergency Medical Officer (EMO) would be appointed in the emergency department of the hospital as the emergency department of the hospital is expected to has heavy rush of patients during Holi festival. The Doon Hospital administration claimed that emergency department is equipped with life saving drugs and specialist doctors and para-medical staff would be available through on-call in the hospital. Additionally, stern instructions were already given to ortho-surgeons, pediatricians, eye-specialists, dermatologists, surgeons, ENT specialists and anesthetists to remain available through on-call for ensuring immediate medical relief to patients.
While speaking to The Pioneer, Dr RS Aswal, Principal Medical Superintendent told that strict instructions are already issued to the medical officers to remain on alert for providing immediate medical relief to the patients. “I will personally monitor the things,” he said, adding that strict departmental action would be taken against those staff found guilty of recklessness. He told that beds have been reserved for patients.
He advised to use body lotion before playing Holi in order to reduce it harmful affect. Meanwhile, GVKEMRI-108 medical service has also pulled up its socks for providing immediate relief to patients. The 108-service officials claimed that Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital districts are among the worst affected in terms of suspected poising, road traffic accidents etc and police personnel would be also deployed in life saving ambulances in order to avoid any untoward incident.
After confirming that strict instructions are already given to EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians) for providing immediate medical relief to patients, Manish Tinkoo, State Head, GVKEMRI-108 service, said that fleet of ambulances is ready for immediate action in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand. The figures compiled by the GVKEMRI-108 service clearly highlighted that the 570 and 538 emergency cases were handled in 2011 ad 2012 respectively and 791 emergency cases were handled by the Emergency Medical Technicians during Holi in the last year. Tinkoo said best possible medical care would be given to the victims across the State.