The government has decided to set up burns units in five medical colleges in the State, Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar has said.
The Minister was inaugurating a burns unit with modern facilities at the Government Medical College at Kalamassery here on Saturday.
The need for separate burns units at medical colleges had been felt for some time as people with more than 20 per cent burns required special care, he said. In all other medical colleges, burns victims were treated in the general ward and the practice was improper, he said.
The Minister, who was visiting the college for the first time after the government takeover, said the staff integration process would be finalised soon and the package would be agreeable to all.
Praising the nearly 4,000-sq. ft burns unit that would be fully air-conditioned with six individual rooms and six general wards with barrier nursing, the Minister said even the private sector in the district did not have a burns unit with such elaborate facilities.
The unit has a hydrotherapy tub costing Rs. 4.5 lakh and will have special beds for the patients. The unit will be part of the surgery department with a plastic surgeon on board. An operation theatre and ventilator facility is also part of the unit.
The unit, along with the revamp of the casualty block, was supported by the BPCL-KRL with Rs. 1.5 crore through its corporate social responsibility (CSR) project.
The Minister said the government planned to utilise funds from the public and private sector through CSR projects in setting up dialysis units at taluk-level hospitals.
GraduationForty-three nurses graduated from the first batch of B.Sc Nursing course at the Government Medical College on Saturday. Mr. Sivakumar inaugurated the function organised in connection with the occasion and Minister for Public Works V.K. Ebrahim Kunju presided.
