Advanced training for medical staff of state-run hospitals

To provide better healthcare facilities to patients visiting various state-run hospitals, the Bengal government has decided to impart high-level training of advanced critical care in a large scale to doctors, nurses and paramedical staff of the hospitals.

This was a part of the move to better equip all the state-run hospitals in Bengal in handling patients. The state Health department will impart knowledge on critical care among the doctors and paramedical staff working at different Critical Care Units (CCU), Intensive Care Units (ICU) and High Dependency Units (HDU) of the state-run hospitals.

A senior Health department official in the state believes that the training programme will immensely benefit the doctors, nurses and technicians who take care of ICUs, CCUs and HDUs at different hospitals. The main purpose of the new initiative was to train doctors, nurses and paramedical staff discharging their duties at the CCUs, ICUs and HDUs of the state-run hospitals so that patients can get better and effective treatment. It was found that many of the paramedical staff do not have adequate knowledge on how a critical patient can be given a better facility. This initiative will help the doctors and technical staff to gain the best of knowledge in their respective fields to treat the patients in a better way.

It may be mentioned that the Bengal government has already tied up with Singapore government to impart knowledge of advanced critical care among doctors. The programme that had been started in Bijoygarh has started giving results. But the government is trying to start more such courses through which critical care training could be provided to more number of people.

The concept was the brainchild of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who urged the senior officials of the Singapore government to conduct training here in Bengal to make the doctors and paramedical staff learn on how to handle a critical patient in a better way.

The Singapore government also responded to Chief Minister's appeal had agreed to hold training camps here in Kolkata. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been signed between the state and Singapore government. According to a senior official in the state Health department, Singapore has the one of the best expertise in critical care management.

An official in the Health department said that the department was planning to introduce more such training through various modules. Medical officers from various hospitals will be trained in rotational shifts. The training will be imparted separately among the medical officers, nurses and technicians.