Emergency care ward at KMC to be ready by June

As part of Tamil Nadu Accident and Emergency Care Initiative (TAEI), the casualty ward at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital was the first to be transformed into an emergency care unit. The facility will start functioning at KMC by June.

The 108-ambulance staff will update the hospital through the TAEI mobile application about the vital status and condition of the patient being brought to the hospital. The emergency ward will be labelled and marked into three specific colour zones — red ward, yellow ward and the green ward. The red labelled ward will have seven beds, yellow 10 and green five.

“On receiving the status of the patient, the critically injured will be sent to Red labelled ward, severely injured to the yellow labelled ward and those patients with minor injuries will be sent to green labelled ward. The patient’s details will be entered in Accident Registry as the patient is brought to the hospital,” said Dr P Vasanthamani, dean, Kilpauk Medical College.

The upgradation of the zero-delay ward to the emergency care unit will help reduce the treatment response time and attend the patients as per their specific medical condition. The construction work of the new emergency care unit has started and will be completed by May end. Currently, the casualty ward is functioning at the general medicine ward.

After the emergency care unit was set up at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, it was found that there was a reduction in the cases of trauma-related deaths at the hospital. Thus, a similar treatment protocol for trauma victims is likely to provide better treatment outcomes at KMC also.