Lucknow: King George's Medical University to soon get 500-bed emergency trauma facility

Lucknow: The Executive Council of King George's Medical University on Tuesday gave green signal to a proposal for establishment of 500-bed emergency facility under Trauma Centre part ll project.

The new facility is expected to ease the burden on the existing 150-bed Trauma Centre that treats 450-500 emergency patients daily.

The EC members said the proposed centre will be an expansion of the existing facilities with more diagnostic labs and OTs. It will be able to provide better and timely treatment to emergency patients coming from all over the state.

The proposal will now be sent to the government for further action, they said.

According to the draft of the new facility, it will be established after demolishing the old nursing hostel. It will have seven storeys apart from two storey basement for parking and diagnostic labs and other amenities.

In the front portion of the ground floor, there will be 80 bed facilities along with a radio diagnostic centre. First floor will have a 60 bed ward with at least 12 OTs. Third floor will have 80 beds for trauma surgery patients followed by the fourth floor with 60 beds for orthopaedic patients.

Fifth floor will have 40 bed ICU and 20 HDU beds, the sixth floor will have super-speciality facilities such as plastic surgery, vascular surgery, ophthalmology, destitute ward, ENT and among others. Office lounge, seminar house stores will be established on the seventh floor.

"The proposed phase II will have complete pathological and radiological facilities under one roof while emergency services to seriously ill old patients will continue in the old building of Trauma Center Phase-I," said KGMU vice chancellor Lt Gen (retd) prof Bipin Puri.

The work will start soon after the government's nod, he added.