Over five years after the proposal for setting up the state-of-the-art department of physical medicine and rehabilitation was first mooted, the GMCH is set to get the department with the administration today approving it.
The setting up of the department will go a long way in restoring the patients to fullest possible level of physical, mental, social and economic independence, the GMCH director-principal, Dr Raj Bahadur, said here.
In fact, the department will bring various specialists together so that the main aim of restoring the patient to his highest level of daily function and improve his quality of life could be achieved. Currently, these rehabilitation services are being provided in an incoherent manner by physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, psychiatrists, physicians and orthopaedic surgeons.
At the initiative of Dr RK Srivastava, director-general health services (DGHS), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recently okayed four such departments at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer), Puducherry, Lady Hardinge Hospital, New Delhi, King George Medical Centre, Lucknow, besides the GMCH.
Sources said due to the efforts of the Chandigarh Administration, the ministry had agreed to provide financial support to procure equipment and provide salary to the faculty and staff till the GMCH was able to create its own posts.
The proposal to set up the department was first mooted in 2003 and the Health Ministry reportedly sanctioned an amount of Rs 21 lakh for this purpose. However, in the wake of the absence of any follow-up action, the proposal failed to take off.
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