The government medical fraternity in the city has stressed on the need for setting up an independent centre for emergency medical services in Sassoon General Hospital.
The government medical fraternity in the city has stressed on the need for setting up an independent centre for emergency medical services in Sassoon General Hospital. They have also sought inclusion of emergency medicine in the curriculum of post-graduate courses in medical colleges.
This was revealed by Dr Kalpana Kelkar, head of the anaesthesia department at BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital on Saturday. She was speaking exclusively to DNA on the sidelines of the two-day state-level emergency medicine summit organised by the BJ Medical College in association with the SK Navale Medical College, Pune.
Kelkar, the organising secretary of the conference said, “A proposal for including emergency medicine in the curriculum was sent to the Medical Council of India and the director of medical education and research of the state last year. We are awaiting their response.”
Introduction of such a course will help understand emergencies better. She said there are plans to include anaesthesia, pulmonology, orthopaedics, medicine, general surgery, paediatrics and gynaecology in the emergency medicine course.
“We have also demanded that an emergency medicine centre in Sassoon must come up behind the trauma centre that would be inaugurated shortly,” she added.
Kelkar said the doctors and the staff at Sassoon Hospital handled the situation well during the H1N1 outbreak and the German Bakery blast, though they were not trained or equipped. “We also plan to upgrade the casualty services in Sassoon Hospital as many other hospitals in the country have their own emergency centres. All private hospitals have a unit, but the government hospital has not yet taken such steps,” she said. The meet was inaugurated by Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik, vice-chancellor Dr Arun Jamkar. Sinhgad Technical Education Society founder president MN Navale was present.
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