SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir has four trauma care facilities named under the National Programme for Prevention and Management of Trauma and Burn Injuries (NPPMT and BI), part of the Tertiary Care Programme, official records tabled in the Lok Sabha show.
The facilities — MMAM District Hospital, Anantnag (level III); Trauma Hospital, Ramban, Doda (level III); Government District Hospital, Udhampur (level II); and District Hospital, Kupwara (level III) — are among 196 trauma care facilities sanctioned across the country. Tangella Uday Srinivas raised the question in Parliament and Prataprao Jadhav, Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, provided the reply on December 12, 2025.
The ministry said the scheme’s objective is to develop a pan-India trauma care network to reduce preventable deaths from road accidents and other injuries. The list of 196 sanctioned facilities spans medical colleges, district hospitals and selected subdistrict hospitals across States and Union Territories; Jammu and Kashmir’s four entries cover both district and specialised trauma hospitals.
Under the current scheme, the Centre’s financial support is limited to releasing the balance central share within the total approved cost of already approved facilities; the Ministry noted there is presently no provision in the scheme for identification of new trauma care facilities. Emphasis, the Ministry added, has shifted to capacity building of doctors and paramedical staff in trauma management.
Health being a state subject, the ministry said that day-to-day monitoring, maintenance of patient statistics and oversight of quality at trauma centres rest with State and Union Territory governments. The reply made clear that details of patients treated at the facilities are maintained at state level rather than centrally.
The annexure to the parliamentary reply lists the sanctioned facilities by State and facility name; elsewhere the ministry cited examples of tertiary and district hospitals included in the network, from medical colleges in major cities to district hospitals in remote districts. The government said the earlier phases of the programme, implemented during the 11th and 12th Five Year Plans, sanctioned the 196 facilities now on record.
For Jammu and Kashmir, the presence of a level II facility at Udhampur and three level III centres — including a dedicated trauma hospital at Ramban — is significant for emergency care access in both Kashmir Valley and the union territory’s frontier and hill districts. Officials and health advocates say that, beyond infrastructure, sustained investment in staffing, training and supplies will be needed to translate facility status on paper into reliable round-the-clock trauma services on the ground.
The full list of sanctioned trauma care facilities and the Ministry’s detailed reply to Tangella Uday Srinivas are available in the Lok Sabha records.
