AIIMS RDA urges director not to convert trauma centre in Covid facility

The AIIMS RDA has urged the institute's director not to convert the AIIMS Trauma Centre into a Covid Care facility, saying trauma services should not be ignored as most of the trauma victims are of young age who are the sole breadwinners of their families.

The RDA in its letter said that avenues like surgical block, MCh block, geriatric block, burn plastic block should be considered for rendering services to coronavirus patients.

All trauma services were shifted to the main AIIMS campus on March 28, 2020, and the JPNA trauma center was converted into a dedicated Covid care facility in view of the rising cases.

It said that they were thankful that the trauma services were shifted back to JPNATC one month ago.

''It took a month for trauma services to be restored to pre-Covid times. Now COVID-19 cases are increasing rapidly but as we have seen in the last two waves of the pandemic, the cases of trauma are also not decreasing. ''With the conversion of JPNA trauma center to COVID-19 center, it is expected for the trauma patients to suffer a lot again. Most of the victims of trauma are of young age who are the sole breadwinners of their families,'' the RDA said in the letter on January 4.