PATIALA: The Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital has launched the Gian Sagar Parivar Sehat Yojna for the people residing in the periphery of the Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital.

Launching the scheme at the rural health centre of the hospital at village Gajjukhera, near here Thursday, GSMCH Principal Dr A. S. Sekhon called upon the assembled village elders, which also included the sarpanches and panches of the area, to make full use of the scheme which had been designed especially to benefit the people of the rural area.

Dr Sekhon said that the target audience of the scheme were the middle and upper middle class families and on an annual premium of rs 50 family of five members were covered. The covered families were entitled to the privilege of 10 free consultations annually, 15 per cent discount on investigations, 10 per cent discount on hospital admissions, priority treatment at the hospital, and free ambulance services up to 20 km radius.

Dr Sekhon said that the GSMCH was committed to providing the best of medical treatment to the people of the area and had on its faculty the best of doctors in the region. He said that super specialty treatment was available in such disciplines like neurosurgery and laproscopic surgery.

He said that the hospital was being run by the Gian Sagar Educational and Charitable Trust and there was no profit motive in the running of the Gian Sagar Hospital. He said that the trust had been running a medical college, a dental college, college of nursing, college of physiotherapy, and college of paramedical sciences.

Dr Sekhon invited the sarpanches and panches of the area to visit the hospital in groups so that they could see for themselves the facilities available in the hospital. He said that the hospital had the best of medical equipment and had latest machines for diagnostic tests.

Dr Jasbir Kaur, Vice-Principal of the GSMCH, speaking on the occasion said that hospital had also been empanelled under the Bhai Kanhaiya Cashless Healthcare Scheme and those holding identity cards for the scheme could benefit from the specialized medical treatment.

Prominent among those who spoke at the function included Dr H. M. Swami, Medical Superintendent, Dr M. S. Sekhon, Vice-Principal and Head of the Department of Surgery, and Dr Jasdeep Singh, a professor in the Department of Community Medicine.