Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has opened a third facility in the state at Rani Laxmibai Hospital to treat burn-injury patients. The facility is designed to provide dedicated quality care to the affected patients.
The six-bed burn ward has already operational and injured patients are getting admitted for treatment.
The state government decided to build another burn ward facility to ease the increasing pressure on the other two facilities at King George’s Medical University and Civil Hospital. However, there is still a need to make more burn wards due to the rising patient load.
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Burn injuries are under-appreciated injuries that are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Burn injuries, particularly severe burns, are accompanied by an immune and inflammatory response, metabolic changes and distributive shock that can be challenging to manage and can lead to multiple organ failure. Therefore, more wards are required to be set up at the state to minimise the risk by providing immediate treatment in emergencies.
Speaking to HT, Dr Sangeeta Tandon, chief medical superintendent, Rani Laxmibai Hospital, said “We have six beds and all the related equipment, medicine and manpower. Patients are being admitted."
“We need more smaller centres that can cater to patients with superficial burns up to 20 or 30%. This way, higher centres with ICU facility for burn patients can focus on those with major burns or in need of surgical intervention,” said Prof Vijay Kumar, HoD plastic surgery, KGMU.
"Usually, the occupancy at KGMU and Civil hospitals remains 100% as they also cater to burn injury patients from other districts. This is why we need more smaller centres for burn injuries so that minor injuries can be treated effectively here by surgeons and patients with major burn injuries, say more than 30%, can be brought to higher centres,” said Kumar.
“We need over 100-bed facility for serious burn care, keeping in view the load of patients in the state capital,” he added.
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