Work on a level-one trauma care centre has begun at the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Kozhikode.
This is part of constructing a pan-India trauma care network in government hospitals to ensure that no trauma victim has to be transported for more than 50 km and a designated trauma centre is available at every 100 km. Level-one centres will provide the highest level of definitive and comprehensive care for patients with complex injuries, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. They are being set up only in medical college hospitals with more than 500 beds. In Kerala, such centres are coming up only at the Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode medical college hospitals.
Hospital sources told The Hindu on Tuesday that the new building would be conceived as an annexe of the trauma care centre that was recently opened along with the new casualty ward at the PMSSY block.
