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Emergency care centres will likely be established shut to highways at 11 extra locations throughout the State to deal with and save these injured in street accidents, Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar stated.
Work to set up such centres is below means at Madhanur in Vellore district, Soolagiri in Krishnagiri district, Madhuranchavadi in Salem district, Madurai Kamaraj University in Madurai district and Gummidipoondi in Tiruvallur district. Steps are being taken to make them useful quickly, he stated in Kodumbalur on Saturday.
The centres, that are presently performing at six places within the State, have offered therapy to as many as 56,586 individuals, the Minister stated, after inaugurating an improved round the clock free emergency care centre on the premises of the Government Primary Health Centre at Kodumbalur.
The centre has been set up along the Madurai-Chennai National Highway at a price of ₹1 crore. A group of 4 docs and 10 nurses will likely be deployed there.
Mr. Vijayabaskar stated the centres had been being established to cut back the time taken to rush the injured to services for therapy. The time taken to shift the injured to the centre, from the accident spot, will likely be lesser in contrast to the time it takes to transfer them to a hospital. Stating that the institution of free emergency care centres was a pioneering effort, he stated that steps had been being taken in Goa as nicely to emulate the identical.
Pudukottai Collector P. Uma Maheswari and Health Department officers had been current through the inauguration of the centre.
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