Rajkot Civil Hospital to get international-level burns and trauma Centre

Rajkot: The Rajkot Civil Hospital will soon have an international-level burns and trauma centre funded by the central and state governments. The first installment of Rs 8 crore for infrastructure and Rs 1 crore for instruments by the central and state governments has been approved and will be released soon for this cause.

“The new burns and trauma center will be set up at the hospital, with an emergency medicine department comprising departments for medicine, bones, and surgery. The doctors from the three departments will collaborate to form the emergency medicine department, which will also have a designated head.” said Civil surgeon Dr RS Trivedi.

Dr. Trivedi added  – it will benefit over 1 crore people from 8 districts in Saurashtra. New recruitments will be made for the burns and trauma centres in Gandhinagar. Its construction will start in a month after identifying a new site for it in the civil hospital. The work is likely to be completed in a year. DeshGujarat