Where will Trauma patients go? AIIMS Trauma Centre Should not be converted to COVID-19 Facility, says RDA

New Delhi: Lamenting the conversion of a World Class Trauma Centre into a COVID facility to the ignorance of trauma patients, the resident doctors working at the  JPN Apex Trauma Centre at AIIMS have now written a letter to the higher authorities

The resident doctors at the Trauma Centre as well as AIIMS RDA have urged the institute's director not to convert the AIIMS Trauma Centre into a Covid Care facility, saying trauma services should not be ignored as most of the trauma victims are of young age who are the sole breadwinners of their families.

The doctors in their letter said that avenues like surgical block, MCh block, geriatric block, burn plastic block should be considered for rendering services to coronavirus patients.

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''It took a month for trauma services to be restored to pre-Covid times. Now COVID-19 cases are increasing rapidly but as we have seen in the last two waves of the pandemic, the cases of trauma are also not decreasing. ''With the conversion of JPNA trauma center to COVID-19 center, it is expected for the trauma patients to suffer a lot again. Most of the victims of trauma are of young age who are the sole breadwinners of their families,'' the RDA said in the letter on January 4.

" With the conversion of the JPNA trauma center to Covid center, it is expected for the trauma patients to suffer a lot again. Most of the victims of trauma are young, who are the sole breadwinners of their families. In such a situation, along with Covid, trauma services should also not be ignored," added the letter of resident doctors

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