Punjab: GSMCH to set up first rural health centre

 



Dr B. P. Gupta, Head of the Community Medicine Department of the GSMCH, said here on Monday that the health centre was being established with a view to catering to the healthcare needs of the people of the Gajju Khera and Manakpur villages, which were located a short distance from each other.

Dr Gupta said that the GSMCH Department of Community Medicine had already undertaken a detailed survey of these two villages covering a population of 5184.

He said that all children under five years of age, antenatal females, adolescents, eligible couples and geriatric age groups had been identified in this population so that comprehensive health care services could be made available to them.

He said that other medical services like immunization; regular ante-natal check-up, contraceptive services would be made available the GSMCH doctors. Besides this, consultants from different departments of the GSMCH would visit the rural health centre to provide specialist services to the people of the area.

Special arrangements had been made to provide free ambulance services to the patients who were referred to the GSMCH for medical treatment, Dr Gupta said.

Gupta said that health workers would educate villagers about health care so that health status of the population of the two villages, which had been adopted by the GSMCH, could be improved.

A. S. Sekhon, Dean of the Gian Sagar colleges and Principal of the Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital, said that the Gian Sagar Educational and Charitable Trust was committed to providing quality healthcare services to the people of this part of the region. He said that the trust had ambitious plans on the anvil for providing specialized health services and highly affordable rates.
 
Sekhon said that the trust had already set up the first polyclinic of Zirakpur, on the outskirts of Chandigarh, on the Chandigarh-Ambala highway, a short distance from the Patiala traffic lights chowk.