New Delhi|Ekta
The day of colors marked the busiest day for AIIMS trauma centre staff. When the capital is celebrating the holi festival the Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre received more than 400 cases, including 104 of road accidents and 103 cases of fall. Apart there were the alarming number of assault cases — 172 to be precise.
Preparations to handle the enormous amount of patient load had started 15 days earlier with continuous meetings, and drills of the staff, with table top exercise for precision, swiftness and uninterrupted patient care,” said Dr Amit Gupta, Additional Medical Superintendent, JPN Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS.
Fifteen days before Holi, the trauma centre had roped in the national disaster response force to handle emergencies. On Monday, the 22-member team of the NDRF decontaminated nine patients with water showers, after they were rushed to the emergency centre. “The NDRF is given training in advance. During Holi, patients come to the centre after the presence of harmful chemicals causes an adverse reaction. The NDRF decontaminated nine patients with water shower,” said an AIIMS said Dr.Gupta
Nearly 84 per cent of the cases that the emergency centre saw on Holi were of male patients between the ages of 21 and 30. “From among them, 80 per cent of the cases were medico-legal cases and 40 were critically injured, admitted mostly in the neurosurgery department. Most of the patients were from Delhi. But we had patients from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana as well,” Dr Gupta said.
NGO SAPNA provide extra support by working in the premises of the centre with a workforce of 12 extra volunteers with the social workers form the centre working as help desk and providing information about the patients to their relatives. The disaster ward was made ready with the blood bank and lab facility fully functional with extra material to provide services for the whole day and night.
The radiology department received many patients for CT scan and major operations were conducted on 11 patients as told by Dr.Amit.
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