Health Minister inaugurates new health facilities to improve quality of healthcare services at PGIMER
The 1st convocation ceremony of National Institute of Nursing Education, PGIMER, Chandigarh, was recently held in Chandigarh. While addressing the gathering, JP Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare said, “The government has given high priority for improving the nursing and midwifery cadre through skill development and continued professional development.”
According to Nadda, the government has undertaken major expansion of nursing and technical education leading to a three-fold increase in the numbers of nursing institutions and in the number of students passing out of these institutions.
The health minister also dedicated two more AMRIT (Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants) outlets at PGI. One outlet has been set up in Nehru Hospital, which will provide generic medicines and orthopaedic surgical implants and another in the Advanced Cardiac Centre (ACC). It will provide affordable cardio vascular medicines and implants.
A sleep lab was also inaugurated in the Department of ENT for the diagnosis and surgical treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). The laboratory has been designed to evaluate, diagnose, treat and help patients to manage OSA. The minister also dedicated Kitten MRI/Mock MRI Scanner at PGI which is specifically designed to make MRI scanning safer and more child friendly. The facility has been acquired at an approximate cost of Rs 13 crores.
Three telemedicine facilities in three remote locations, namely Community Health Centre, Pooh in District Kinnour of Himachal Pradesh; Pampa Hospital, Sabrimala in Kerala and Sheshnag base camp on way to Amarnath Shrine were also inaugurated. Nadda said that the three telemedicine nodes have been established by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in collaboration with Department of Space. These centres which have been connected with Telemedicine node at PGI will provide remote healthcare over telemedicine platform.
EH News Bureau