Sambalpur: Nearly 10 months after chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi inaugurated a Rs 21.28 crore state-of-the-art trauma care centre at Sambalpur district headquarters hospital, the facility is still to become operational, prompting a complaint at Sambalpur Town police station on Monday, seeking an investigation into the delay.According to the complaint lodged by Progressive Sambalpur, a forum of civil society members, patients requiring emergency medical attention are being deprived of specialised healthcare services promised at the facility, inaugurated on Jan 11.The complainants also alleged that the facility lacks essential medical professionals and support staff, including doctors, anaesthesiologists, orthopaedic surgeons, technicians and nurses.Questioning the fate of the project built at a cost of more than Rs 21 crore, the complainants have sought an investigation into the delay and demanded stringent action against those responsible.Sambalpur chief district medical officer (CDMO) Dr Neelamadhab Satpathy said the trauma care centre would soon become operational. He said state govt has been taking steps in this regard.Talking about the delay, Dr Satpathy said the old hospital buildings had become structurally weak and would be demolished to make way for new ones. Departments functioning from the old buildings have been shifted to the newly constructed facility. He also said several critically ill patients are already being treated there.