Monday, 24 April 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Unit to treat cardiac cases in four districts of Garhwal & Char Dham Yatra circuit
The residents of Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri and Pauri districts in the Garhwal region along with those undertaking the Char Dham Yatra will be able to access medical treatment of heart related issues at the base hospital of the Srinagar medical college. As part of its corporate social responsibility, the Meditrina Health Group has started operation of the cardiac unit at the base hospital. The operations were inaugurated by the State’s Medical Health minister Dhan Singh Rawat on Sunday.
Rawat said that residents of four districts in the Garhwal region along with those undertaking the Char Dham Yatra will benefit from this cardiac unit. The Meditrina group will operate the cardiac unit as part of its CSR during the Char Dham Yatra season and after that the State government will take a decision on operating this unit under the public private partnership mode. The minister also presented appointment letters to 18 assistant professors appointed on regularised basis in the medical college. Rawat further informed that the State government had recently appointed 171 faculty members in the government medical colleges across the State out of whom 18 faculty members were appointed in the Srinagar medical college. He said that soon there will be adequate number of faculty members in the Srinagar, Dehradun, Almora and Haldwani medical colleges. He further said that advertisements for readers and professors will also be issued soon so that there is no dearth of doctors in the government medical colleges in Uttarakhand.
The principal of the Srinagar medical college Dr CMS Rawat thanked the minister for appointment of permanent faculty members in the college. With the start of this cardiac unit, any serious cardio related case at the local level or during the Char Dham Yatra will receive timely treatment here, he added.
Meditrina hospital, Dehradun, centre head Bhavesh Moga said that with the start of the cardiac centre, the cardiac OPD will also be started within 15 days.
The base hospital medical superintendent Dr Ravindra Bisht, Dr KS Butola, Dr Vyas Kumar Rathore and other faculty members were also present on the occasion.
