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Friday, Jul 23, 2004

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KMC ambulance to be flagged off today

By Our Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE, JULY 22. A new-age hi-tech ambulance with state-of-the-art facilities is just what the district needs keeping in mind the number of accidents taking place in the region.

That need will be fulfilled tomorrow when Kasturba Medical College (KMC) will press into service its hi-tech ambulance, which will be used for accident care and medical emergencies, according to the chief operating officer of KMC Hospitals, D.P. Saraswat. He told presspersons here today that the ambulance was equipped with facilities to treat emergencies. It would have trauma-care personnel who had been trained to administer emergency care and transfer patients safely to KMC hospitals, he noted.

Ambareesh M., Head of the Department of Anaesthesiology, said the ambulance had facilities such as a life-supporting system, oxygen administration, an ambulance bag, suction apparatus, all emergency medication, IV fluids, monitors for continuous display of ECG, and ventilators to support patients with respiratory failure. It had also been equipped with defibrillators for management of cardiac arrest, cervical collar for patients with injuries to neck and spine board, and splints for those with fractures, he added.

Dr. Saraswat said the ambulance would be provided free of cost for road accidents.

He said that the ambulance would be available 24 hours a day and the people could utilise the facility in case of an emergency by calling 2444777.

The ambulance would be flagged off by the Commissioner of the Mangalore City Corporation, V.S. Nayak, on Friday at 2.45 p.m., Dr. Saraswat said.

Clinical skill laboratory

A "clinical skill laboratory" for training and teaching undergraduate as well as postgraduate medical students would be inaugurated by the Mayor, Purandaradas Kuloor, at the Kasturba Medical College (KMC) at Lighthouse Hill Road on Friday, the Dean of the KMC, C.V. Raghuveer, said.

The lab had been equipped to train medical students in resuscitation and emergency care, Dr. Raghuveer said.

It contained life-size mannequins and stimulators, which would be used to teach how to administer resuscitation, trauma monitoring, and simulate crisis and its management, he added.

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