Exclusive Burns Centre at Coimbatore Inaugurated
A private hospital in Coimbatore in southern India Tuesday inaugurated a burns centre and said it was a forerunner of sorts.For while generally major hospitals tend to set up cardiac or trauma care units, a care exclusively dedicated to burn injuries is relatively rare. Director of the Ganga Hospital and Medical Centre and Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery and Microsurgery Dr S Raja Sabapathy said, ``The aim is to cut down on medicines, hospital time, by treating patients before they go into complications,'' he said.There is a special resuscitation room where these patients will be received. This area will almost have all the facilities of an operating theatre. Special trolleys have been arranged for showering the acutely burned patient. This will enable good and proper cleaning the patient. There is a special burn intensive care unit where burns involving large parts of the body will be cared for. There is an operation theatre specifically designed for the surgery for burnt patients.Separate dressing rooms and facilities for preparing dressing materials specially for these burn injury patients is available. A facility to manufacture compression garments to be used in the rehabilitation phase, a well supporting physiotherapy unit to get these patients well rehabilitated back to their work and integrate them into the society and facilities to provide psychological counseling for integration into the work place and in the society are the other highlights of this centre, Dr Raja Sabapathy said.
