20 new ventilators at GMCH Trauma Centre

Nagpur: Adding to its capacity, the Trauma Centre of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) has received 20 new ventilators on Monday. After calibration, the 90-bed Centre will have life support on 37 beds. A senior doctor at Trauma Centre told TOI new ventilators will be functional in a week.
Trauma Centre at GMCH was started in 2016. It is equipped and staffed to provide care for patients suffering from traumatic injuries like falls and accidents.
Being a joint project of Central and state government, all patients get free treatment here. Emergency patients are getting speedy treatment as the facilities such as intervention radiology, CT Scans, MRI and others are available under one roof. It has two operation theatres, one surgical ICU ward, two ICU wards, and one general ward apart from a drugstore. Additional 20 ventilators will be a major boost for the Centre.
A senior official informed that 17 beds having ventilator support in the Centre always remained occupied. Apart from this, all 90 beds here remain occupied most of the times as the Centre receives patients from Nagpur and other cities and states as well.
As per the data, 4,161 patients were admitted to the Centre in 2019 and 1,218 major surgeries were performed. Average mortality rate of Centre remained under 21% in 2019.
In January 2020, the Centre treated 563 patients and conducted 164 surgeries. Interestingly, 56 of these were neurosurgeries. Mortality rate so far this year is down to 10.83%.