Burn emergencies training for health workers

Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (SMBB) Institute of Trauma chief operating officer Dr Sabir Memon announced on Sunday that the hospital's administration was planning to introduce a training programme for doctors, nurses and paramedics working at the province's secondary healthcare facilities.

This, he said, would help reduce the burden of trauma-related cases on tertiary care hospitals.

Talking to the media, Memon said that the training would be focused on building health workers' capacity to deal with trauma-related emergencies at district and taluka hospitals, and expressed hope that the programme would be launched soon.

Besides, the doctor stated that a burns emergency unit and a plastic surgery unit at the SMBB Institute of Trauma would soon be made operational, adding that space for the former had been allocated on the facility's eighth floor while efforts for making the latter functional were also underway.

He further elaborated that the burns emergency unit was to comprise 40 beds, with 10 allocated for high dependency units and as many for separate rooms where patients in need of intensive treatment were to be kept.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 27^th, 2020.