Accidents, Trauma Patients, and a Trauma Care Centre The Aremnian Church

Trauma Centre

With a mission to match social empathy with medical efficiency, Asia Heart Foundation
(AHF) is creating one-stepping stone after the other. Starting with a very simple and
humble dream, dreamt and shared by Dr Devi Shetty and Dr. Alok Roy, and their absolute
faith and commitment to Care and Service to reach out to every individual, who suffered
from a ailment, treat them with utmost care, and help and educate them to achieve
perfect health, Asia Heart Foundation created the Rabindranath Tagore International
Institute of Cardiac Sciences in the year 2000, a 120 bed super specialty Cardiac
Hospital, to extend Quality Cardiac Care at affordable prices to the common masses.
Taking another step ahead, AHF is reaching out to the accident patients with its healing
touch at the Armenian Church Trauma Centre, gearing up to cure thousands with
compassion. A Bangalore based hospital consultancy firm, MedicaSynergie private ltd is
doing this project on turnkey basis.

In India every year nearly 70,000 persons are killed and 2,50,000 injured in road
accidents. Majority of them are in the age group of 25 35 years. The male to female
ratio is 4:1. Head and face injuries were recorded in more than 60% of the injuries
followed by injuries to the lower limb - 37%, and upper limb - 32%. Among those with
brain injuries, 70% are mild, 15% moderate and 10 - 15% severe in nature, out of which
30% die due to brain death. The present level of care for nephro-urology diseases in India
is woefully inadequate. At the hospital level the situation is equally inadequate, only 22%
claims proficiency in urological services and an additional 14% claims to offer some
minimal nephro-urological care.

Located on the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, in the outskirts of Kolkata Metropolis,

Armenian Church Trauma Centre (ACTC), the first of its kind in Eastern India, will
house specialized services like Neurology, Neuro-surgery, Orthopaedics, Orthopaedic
Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Urology, Nephrology and Plastic Surgery to extend immediate
medical help to the accident patients and to provide to the aspiring people of West Bengal
and the neighbouring states equitable distribution of health care for all.

ACTC is a 395 bed proposed multispeciality center having 72 Intensive care beds and
intending to provide the most comprehensive service in diagnosis, surgery and therapy
for every kind of Neuro, Uro, Nephro, Orthopaedic and General surgery cases. It is
proposed to have 9 Operation Theatres, 20 Bed Dialysis Unit and 395 bed specialty wing
for inpatients in different category like general, semi private, private and deluxe. The
hospital is going have a constructed area of approximately 17,154 sq. ft. on each floor
and is going to be commissioned in 2 phases. Total no. of floors would be Ground plus
Eight Floors. The total built up area is 154386 sq. ft. It will have 17 consultation rooms in
its OPD, and diagnostic facilities such as CT, MRI, ECG, EEG, ECHO, USG, COLOUR
DOPPLER, TMT, X-RAY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE, and 24 hour trauma and emergency
care. It will one of its first kind of trauma care in India.

ACTC would be a Level I trauma center -

Providing the highest level of definitive care for injured patients from
resuscitation through rehabilitation.
Having emergency physicians, surgeons, surgical specialists, nurses and other
disciplines required to be in-house and available to provide immediate care.
Providing leadership in injury-prevention programmes
Providing leadership in teaching, community outreach and education.

With all the above specialties, Armenian Church Trauma Center (ACTC) is destined to
become a model Trauma Center in the country, especially with a fully functional cardiac
hospital also within the campus. By saving thousands of lives and curing numerous
complicated ailments, we are just taking a step further towards keeping our promise to
the people of West Bengal.

The first phase of the hospital is scheduled to be commissioned by April 2004.