Commencing New ‘Burns Centre’ at KMC
Posted on: 19/Mar/2014 4:11:36 PM
Annually, around 3000 patients with burn injuries have been getting admitted in the Government Kilpauk Hospital, gives the root for emerging new ‘burns centre’ at KMC.
This project has been sanctioned during March 2012, and now it has been set at a cost of Rs.5 Crore, said P.Ramakrishnan, dean of the hospital.
The new burns centre will be a three-storey building spread across 2,720 Sq. meters. The casualty, operation theatre and wards will be on the ground floor; an intensive care unit, a minor operation theatre and a physiotherapy unit on the first floor; and second floor will be framed later with an auditorium for classes and meetings, faculty rooms and a rehabilitation unit, explained by J.Jaganmohan, chief of the Burns & Plastic Surgery Department at the KMC hospital.
Currently, hospital stays insufficient with only 50 beds, which leads more congestion and unfolds the infections.
Dr. Jaganmohan said, that the list of the new equipment have been sent to the management which includes a Rs. 45-lakh gadget that will certainly levy the depth of a burn, and an electronic weighing machine to mediate on patients who are on stretchers.
We are in need of more funds to bring in more doctors and four social workers, in order to ensure complete treatment for the patients to tile the regular life.
