Patna: The system of trolleys to transfer patients into wards, emergency and also into investigation units might be scrapped from Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH).

An advisory committee formed by the health department has suggested that the revamp plan of PMCH should have a system in which patients, reaching the hospital either by ambulance or any other vehicle should be transferred to the bed straightaway and at no point of time, trolleys should be used to transport them either in the emergency wing, ward or any other part of the hospital.

Right from the time, they would reach hospital in ambulance, they would be transferred to comfortable beds from the ambulance stretcher and patients would be further shifted in wards and even for taking them for pathological and radiological investigation, they would not be transferred to trolleys, rather their beds would be wheeled into the pathological and radiological unit of the hospital.

The committee has recently visited Medanta the Medicity hospital in Gurgaon (Haryana), apart from two other two hospitals, Columbia Asia Hospital (Haryana) and ESIC Model Hospital, in Delhi. The committee had been felicitated these visits by the health department and it had been asked to give its recommendations on the best practices prevailing in the topmost hospitals, which ultimately has to be incorporated into the remodelling the PMCH design.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar has already announced that the PMCH would be developed into a world-class hospital and all these steps are being taken with view of the chief minister's ambitious plan.

Delhi-based Suresh Goyel & Associates has been awarded the work of making the remodeling design of PMCH.