Advanced Joint Replacement Centre Opend At Senthil Hospital

All vehicles, except those of the police department and ambulances, should have speed governors in order to prevent accidents, former Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation D.R. Karthikeyan said here on Wednesday. Opening an advanced joint replacement centre of Senthil Hospital, Mr. Karthikeyan said speeding on roads accounted for a number of fatal accidents across the country. One lakh people were killed on the roads in the country every year. And, 80 per cent of these people were men in the productive age group of 20 to 45. A majority of those killed were either two-wheeler riders or pedestrians.

Stressing discipline on roads, he pointed out that the U.S. recorded 35,000 accidents a year, though its vehicle population was much higher than India’s. “We are focussing on wearing helmets and seat belts, but not on speed. Many vehicles are manufactured with a capacity to go at a very high speed,” he said. On the need for speedy treatment to the injured, Mr. Karthikeyan quoted from a finding by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences that 40 per cent of the victims died on the roadside because of the delay in help reaching them. Training in emergency medicine and critical care must be made mandatory because this was now available only in the urban and semi-urban areas.

He also regretted that a third of the ambulances in the country were used merely as a mode of transportation because they did not have emergency medical care facilities. To stress safety on roads, K.G. Hospital Chairman G. Bakthavathsalam recalled a topic on which he addressed the students of a college in the city, “How to avoid K.G. Hospital”. The message to the students was, “Wear a helmet.” “If you want to avoid trauma and the huge expenses at hospitals, drive slowly,” he told the gathering at the function that was got up by Senthil Hospital to inaugurate its centres for spine, neuro, plastic, microvascular, hand and cosmetic surgeries. Dr. Bakthavathsalam also emphasised the need to form a good team of doctors in diverse fields for any hospital to provide comprehensive, quality care.

Chairman of AO Spine, Asia Pacific, K.V. Menon said spine surgery was the youngest but the quickest growing speciality in medical science. “Ten years ago, doctors were reluctant to perform a spine surgery and patients preferred dying in pain to undergoing surgery,” he recalled. This has changed now with expertise and technology growing. Sub-specialities in spine surgery, such as paediatric spine surgery, too had come up. City Police Commissioner K.C. Mahali said that though plastic surgery was being described as a modern system of treatment, Susruta had done it more than 1,000 years ago in India.

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