Health Minister Ma. Subramanian inaugurated facilities, including a cardiac catheterisation laboratory and operation theatre complexes, at the Government Stanley Medical College Hospital on Monday.
According to a press release, the cardiac cathetherisation laboratory would cater to the increasing number of patients requiring coronary angiogram and angioplasty procedures. The Minister also inaugurated a renal transplant operation theatre complex, a vascular surgery operation theatre complex and neurosurgery operation theatre complex.
A newly set up operation theatre at the Department of Ophthalmology was brought to use. In addition to these facilities, a new outpatient registration area consisting of four counters, one for the aged and disabled patients, was also opened.
To commemorate World Trauma Day, the hospital organised a public awareness programme emphasising the importance and means of trauma prevention and to educate the public on the ways to address emergencies. A team of doctors provided basic life support training to 200 police personnel.
The Minister spoke about the State government’s ‘ Innuyir Kappom – Nammai Kakkum 48’ scheme. Commissioner of Greater Chennai Police Shankar Jiwal stressed on the importance of wearing helmets as it reduces the incidence of head injury by 90%.
