The trauma care centre and pathological laboratory in the Neyveli Lignite Corporation-run general hospital have been upgraded on a par with those of corporate hospitals. These facilities were inaugurated by NLC Chairman-cum-Managing Director B. Surender Mohan on Monday.
NLC sources say the hospital, besides catering to the health care needs of its regular employees and contract workers and their families, is offering free services to the people from the neighbouring villages. To cope with the demand and effectively handle trauma cases, including road accident victims and heart patients, the NLC general hospital is constantly scaling up facilities. As part of this effort, it has shifted the casualty ward to a more spacious trauma care centre that has a mini-operation theatre, advanced life-saving equipment and multi-meter monitor for providing life-saving intervention. The pathological laboratory has been renovated at a cost of Rs. 20 lakh and equipped with automated microbiology and immunology investigators costing Rs. 38 lakh. The laboratory could carry out one lakh investigations a month and undertake 200 parameters of investigation across different segments.
NLC directors Sarat Kumar Acharya, Rakesh Kumar, S. Rajagopal, M.S. Ravindran and S. Bhoopathy, and Chief General Superintendent and General Superintendent of the hospital K. Janardhan and K. Usha were present.
