As part of the Gurta Gaddi Diwas celebrations, Punjab Governor and UT Administrator General S F Rodrigues (Retd) inaugurated a medical camp and flagged off a fully-equipped AC mobile clinic bus today. The bus was launched by the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Sewa Society at IMA Bhawan in Sector 35.
Accompanied by Jean Rodrigues, the Administrator went around different wards in the city, interacted with the members of the medical team and took stock of the facilities being provided in the hospital.
Rodrigues said they were in the process of synchronising healthcare services by pooling the existing resources and integrating the medical network available at PGIMER, General Hospital and the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, to ensure access to quality healthcare in the region. The Medicity is in an advanced stage of planning which will be equipped with super-speciality services with research facilities and 100 beds for chemotherapy and dialysis patients to help our goal of providing free treatment to the poor patients, he said.
General Rodrigues asked the Home Secretary to constitute a team of officers and management of the Guru Granth Sahib Sewa Society to coordinate endeavour to boost medical services in the region and reach out to people who cannot come to hospitals for treatment.
H S Sabbharwal, General Secretary of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Sewa Society, highlighted its goals and said that the fully-equipped AC mobile clinic bus with latest eye and dental equipment will conduct five camps in a week in rural areas within a 40-km radius of Chandigarh. He said the society has given 12 stretchers each to PGI and General Hospital, Sector 16.
There is a plan to start angiography and angioplasty facilities and the poor patients will be given free services, he added.
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