<p>Chitradurga: Though the state government has proposed to set up a fully equipped Trauma Care Centre (TCC) in Chitradurga, there is a death of land for it on the district general hospital premises as the construction of the government medical college building is underway on the premises.</p><p>Officials either have to relocate the under-construction medical college campus to the outskirts of the City or set up the TCC outside the premises of the district general hospital.</p><p>Sources in the district general hospital stated that the hospital gets around 525 road accident cases every month. It figures in the top five hospitals getting such cases in Karnataka after Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Trauma and Orthopedics, Nimhans, Bengaluru Medical College and Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences in Hubballi. But the absence of an emergency and trauma care centre in the Fort City’s hospital all these years has cost many patients dearly. Patients, especially road accident survivors, have to either seek treatment in private hospitals or go to other districts.</p><p>Speaking to DH, Chitradurga District Surgeon Raveendra said people who sustain head injuries in road accidents are generally sent to the District McGann Teaching General Hospital in Shivamogga due to the absence of plastic surgeons and neurosurgeons in Chitradurga hospital. The remaining cases, including injuries related to bone fractures, are attended at the district general hospital. Primary and secondary bone-related surgeries are done here. Around 170 to 180 surgeries are performed here every month, which is said to be the third highest in general hospitals in the state.</p><p>He said the state government proposed to set up a trauma care centre in Chitradurga in the budget-2025-26 at an estimated cost of Rs 30 crore. However, identification of land for this has turned out to be an uphill task.</p><p>“We will be holding a meeting with the officials of medical education shortly to decide whether the TCC could be constructed in one of the blocks of the government medical college which is being constructed on the premises of the district general hospital,” the district surgeon said.</p><p>Chitradurga Medical College & Research Institute Special Officer B Y Yuvraj said over 42 acres of land at Chikkapura on the outskirts of the City was reserved for the medical college long back but people’s representatives opposed it. There is also land available on Hiriyur Road on the outskirts of the City where the new deputy commissioner’s office is being constructed. It would have been better if the medical college was constructed in one of these places.</p><p>Yuvaraj said TCC must be part of the district general hospital. One must remember that patients need not go to the medical college for treatment. The students will visit the hospital every day as part of their course. So, establishing medical college on the outskirts of the City does not cause inconvenience to any one.</p>
<p>Chitradurga: Though the state government has proposed to set up a fully equipped Trauma Care Centre (TCC) in Chitradurga, there is a death of land for it on the district general hospital premises as the construction of the government medical college building is underway on the premises.</p><p>Officials either have to relocate the under-construction medical college campus to the outskirts of the City or set up the TCC outside the premises of the district general hospital.</p><p>Sources in the district general hospital stated that the hospital gets around 525 road accident cases every month. It figures in the top five hospitals getting such cases in Karnataka after Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Trauma and Orthopedics, Nimhans, Bengaluru Medical College and Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences in Hubballi. But the absence of an emergency and trauma care centre in the Fort City’s hospital all these years has cost many patients dearly. Patients, especially road accident survivors, have to either seek treatment in private hospitals or go to other districts.</p><p>Speaking to DH, Chitradurga District Surgeon Raveendra said people who sustain head injuries in road accidents are generally sent to the District McGann Teaching General Hospital in Shivamogga due to the absence of plastic surgeons and neurosurgeons in Chitradurga hospital. The remaining cases, including injuries related to bone fractures, are attended at the district general hospital. Primary and secondary bone-related surgeries are done here. Around 170 to 180 surgeries are performed here every month, which is said to be the third highest in general hospitals in the state.</p><p>He said the state government proposed to set up a trauma care centre in Chitradurga in the budget-2025-26 at an estimated cost of Rs 30 crore. However, identification of land for this has turned out to be an uphill task.</p><p>“We will be holding a meeting with the officials of medical education shortly to decide whether the TCC could be constructed in one of the blocks of the government medical college which is being constructed on the premises of the district general hospital,” the district surgeon said.</p><p>Chitradurga Medical College & Research Institute Special Officer B Y Yuvraj said over 42 acres of land at Chikkapura on the outskirts of the City was reserved for the medical college long back but people’s representatives opposed it. There is also land available on Hiriyur Road on the outskirts of the City where the new deputy commissioner’s office is being constructed. It would have been better if the medical college was constructed in one of these places.</p><p>Yuvaraj said TCC must be part of the district general hospital. One must remember that patients need not go to the medical college for treatment. The students will visit the hospital every day as part of their course. So, establishing medical college on the outskirts of the City does not cause inconvenience to any one.</p>