Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University is going to open a fullly-fledged emergency unit at the hospital in early November this year.
‘The emergency unit will be established at the ground floor of cabin block,’ Pran Gopal Datta, vice-chancellor of BSMMU told New Age on Thursday.It would take few months to arrange all the facilities at the emergency unit in the hospital, he said.
He said the authorities would open emergency unit in all the departments.
‘Road accidents will not be received at the new emergency unit,’ he added, explaining that they did not have the capacity of managing casualty patients of road accidents.
‘Like National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation or Dhaka Medical College Hospital, we have not the capacity to manage huge number of casualty patients,’ he said.
Currently BSMMU has emergency service at orthopaedic, neurosurgery, paediatric, gynaecology and cardiology departments.
It also has a trauma centre.
Two wards — one for male and the other for female — will be established at the emergency unit. Each ward will have 15 to 20 beds, Pran Gopal said.
Primarily the patient would be admitted to the emergency ward and later would be transferred to the respective departments.
Two emergency operation theatres will also be set up at the emergency unit.
-With New Age input
