RANCHI: Almost three years after its inauguration, Jharkhand's first state-of-the-art trauma centre at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) is yet to start full-fledged operation owing to a lack of manpower and absence of a central air compressor system and central vacuum system, which are essential for conducting surgeries.
Built at a cost of Rs 64 crore, the trauma centre was inaugurated in July 2019 with an aim to establish a world-class facility for providing assistance to trauma cases and to start a critical care unit for patients requiring round-the-clock ICU treatment with proper monitoring. However, the four-storeyed centre has only 15 ICU beds functional against its capacity of 120 beds, which includes 50 ICU beds.
