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Bhubaneswar, August 10: The Capital Hospital in the city will have extensive medical facilities for children at its early intervention centre and for women at its one-stop crisis centre by the forthcoming Independence Day.
Capital Hospital superintendent Binod Mishra in an exclusive interview told Orissa POST that hospital administrators have been working constantly to complete the modalities of the two centres for children and women respectively.
The early intervention centre will come up under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) introduced by the National Health Mission (NHM). The centre will have three doctors, dentist, paediatrician and a physician along with other paramedics. Another such intervention centre will come up at Khurda.
“The doctors and paramedics at the early intervention centre will exclusively treat the children to be admitted to the centre by the hospital’s mobile health van. If the child suffered any acute problem, then he or she will be referred to Cuttack simultaneously,” said Mishra.
On the other hand, the one-stop crisis centre will be set up in collaboration with the women and child development department. The aim of the crisis centre would be to help, treat and counsel women in crisis situations such as harassment and rape.
“At the one-stop crisis centre, we will have doctors, paramedics, counsellors, lawyers and police as well. The women in crisis situation need privacy as well as counselling of all sorts including legal and mental. They will be provided with all facilities at this one-stop centre,” said the superintendent.
Both these proposed projects had been abandoned in the troubled hospital for several years. However, the two centres will be inaugurated soon at the Capital Hospital, assured Mishra, adding the officials were working hard to execute the work by August 15.