Accident Trauma Centre

Anand Hospital is a tertiary referral centre for complex trauma services and deals with the management of primary trauma, neglected trauma, complications of primary management of trauma, polytrauma and mass accidents. The Trauma team includes intensivists, orthopaedic surgeons, general surgeons, neurosurgeons and specialised nurses. All members of the Trauma team are trained in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) resulting in patients being efficiently triaged and managed in the emergency department. The Trauma team surgeons and physicians are highly experienced in early resuscitation, emergency management of trauma to all parts of the body and definitive surgical interventions. The anaesthetists and intensivists are specialised in pain relief and administer regional anaesthetic blocks on arrival to control pain.

The 24-hour trauma care facility is manned by trained medical and the paramedical staff and has a state-of-the-art ambulance service with advanced communication systems to allow monitoring of the injured persons from moment of primary contact and during transit to the emergency ward.