Punjab govt to establish trauma centre at Abohar hospital

On Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s visit to inaugurate a 100-bed building of the district hospital at Fazilka on Monday, BJP MLA from Abohar Arun Narang sought his intervention to equip the sub-divisional Civil Hospital in Abohar with a trauma centre. He said most of the people injured in road mishaps had to be referred to Faridkot or other facilities. The hospital was upgraded from 50 to 100 beds about 20 years ago, but many other facilities were missing.

“If a trauma centre is provided at the hospital, even grievously injured patients can be treated here. Apart from this, the hospital has no CT (computed tomography) scan machine. There have been no ophthalmologists and skin specialists at the hospital for a long time, and patients have to go to private hospitals, where the treatment is costly,” he said.

Last year, Narang said he had requested Ferozepur MP Sukhbir Singh Badal to provide ventilators and other necessary equipment at the hospital to battle Covid-19, but he did not respond. Tribune India