NMC nod for MD Emergency Medicine course in GMC Theni
Theni: Bringing good news to the Postgraduate medical aspirants in Tamil Nadu, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has given its permission to Government Medical College, Theni to run MD course in Emergency Medicine.
Admission in the three seats, for which the Apex medical body has given its nod, would commence from this academic year 2022-2023.
The Dean of the medical college, R Balaji Nathan has further informed that the faculty and all required staff have been already posted for the new PG course in Emergency Medicine.
Following the NMC nod for the MD Emergency Medicine, the GMC Theni has now nine PG medical departments altogether. Apart from the newly added course, the medical colleges offers PG medical education in MD General Medicine, MS General Surgery, MS Obstetrics and Gynaecology, MD Paediatrics, MD Anaesthesia, MD Anatomy, MD Psychiatry and MS Orthopaedic Surgery.
Established in 2004, GMC Theni caters to the rural population of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. It also acts as the tertiary referral centre for the region bordering Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
The college is affiliated with Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, and it also offers MBBS course in 100 medical seats.
As per the data provided by the MoS Health last year, Tamil Nadu has a total number of 4255 PG medical seats including 2381 seats in the Government medical colleges and 1874 in the private medical institutes.
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Confirming that the NMC has given its nod for MD Emergency Medicine course in 3 seats in GMC Theni, the dean of the medical college further mentioned to The Hindu, "The casualty ward which was upgraded as Tamil Nadu Accident and Emergency Care Initiative has been upgraded as Emergency Department. Consequently, the number of beds in emergency ward has been increased from 25 to 50."
'In the last few years, the emergency care provided in Government Hospitals in the State are on a par with that of hospitals in London," he added.
He further told the daily, "Right from the moment the 108 ambulance pick up a patient, the nearest Government Hospital gets pre-arrival intimation number with basic details of the patient. A team of medical officers required for the treatment will be ready and without any loss of time, the patient on arrival would get maximum medical care after taking up triage to assess the condition of the patient."
Mentioning that the emergency ward would help deal with six basic situations including burn injuries, paediatric emergency, road traffic accidents, poisoning, snake bite and heart attack and stroke he mentioned, "The best part of the emergency care in Government Hospitals is that the life saving treatment is given free of cost."
He referred to the fact that earlier the patients had to be taken to different ward of different departments depending upon the nature of emergency. Therefore, he mentioned, "But now we have set up the emergency ward in such a way that the trained medical officers and nurses can handle all the above said life saving situations. It is integrated and comprehensive and trauma and other medical emergency management is done at the ward without referring the patients to speciality doctors. All investigations right from blood investigation, x-ray, ultra sound scan and CT scan are available under one roof and the entire diagnosis can be carried out within 30 to 60 minutes."
