The 100-bed trauma care centre, a one-stop facility for all emergency services, including cases of accidents, is expected to be ready by October and its services may be available to the public from November.
With 70% of civil works completed, the centre, which will function under the Directorate of Medical Education, will be an exclusive ‘emergency and casualty department’ with all facilities, including neuro care, under one roof.
Attached to the Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMCRI), the trauma care centre is coming up on a 5-acre plot on the premises of PKTB Sanatorium on KRS Road.
The Mysuru branch of Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research is also coming up on the same premises with the State government having plans of developing the area into a ‘Health City’.
MMCRI Director B. Krishnamurthy told The Hindu that the trauma care centre will be formally inaugurated in November since the tender was awarded with the condition of completing the project in 18 months. The work commenced early last year, he said. Installation of medical equipment, interior works and other essential works may take some time but the civil works are nearing completion.
Out of the estimated cost of ₹30 crore, ₹7 crore was expected to be spent on installing medical equipment and setting up hi-tech operation theatres. The facility would need about 450 staff, including specialists, paramedical staff, and support staff. Patients from Mysuru, Mandya, Chamarajanagar, Hassan, and Kodagu districts would benefit from this centre. Four operation theatres, a laboratory, a casualty ward, a blood bank, MRI and CT scan and X-ray facilities, 14 special wards, 11 general wards, and four intensive care units are among the facilities coming up at the centre.
It will have departments of neurosurgery, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, general surgery and physiotherapy. The idea is to first treat the emergency cases at this facility and later shift to K.R. Hospital once the condition of patients stabilise.
The trauma care centre should have been ready by now since it was planned a couple of years ago with budgetary allocation.
The delay in its completion has escalated the project cost.
