In a bid to improve health care services across all the six medical colleges in Himachal Pradesh, the present state government is taking numerous steps to improve and offering better medical facilities to the patients.
It has approved the establishment of departments of Nephrology, Neurology, and Gastroenterology at Dr. Radhakrishnan Government Medical College, Hamirpur, along-with creation and filling of 118 posts across various categories, aiming to provide specialized treatment facilities to the patients from Hamirpur and neighbouring districts including Mandi, Una, Bilaspur and Kangra.
Under the directives of CM Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, the hospital authorities have conducted a survey, which indicated a rise in the patients suffering from kidney, neurological and digestive system related ailments.
However, due to lack of the specialist doctors of these departments in the medical college, the patients are force to go to IGMC Shimla, Dr. RPGMC Tanda and PGIMER, Chandigarh for treatment. The Chief Minister directed the Health department to expedite the process of establishing the new departments and appointing the requisite medical and supportive staff.
The Chief Minister has also directed the department to improve the health care facilities across all the medical colleges. Following these directives, the state government has also given its nod to establish the department of Nuclear Medicine at Lal Bahadur Shastri Medical College, Nerchowk in Mandi district along-with creation and filling of posts including Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Senior Resident Doctor, Nuclear Medicine Technologist and Radiation Safety Officer.
Additionally, it also approved to fill up the post of Assistant Professor in the department of Immunohematology and blood transfusion in the department of Pathology in Dr. Y.S. Parmar Government Medical College Nahan, district Sirmaur.
The state government is focused on upgrading medical technologies and diagnostic services across the state. As a part of this, three Tesla MRI machines are install in the medical colleges of Tanda, Hamirpur, and Nerchowk. The current MRI machine at IGMC is over 19 years old and is replace by the state government.
Chamiyana Hospital in Shimla, along-with all medical colleges, zonal and regional hospitals are modernized to provide world class treatment facilities within the state. The government has earmarked Rs. 200 crore for implementing modern technologies in the hospitals and is consistently working to reduce patient dependency on out of state health care services. Additionally, 69 health facilities across the state are upgrade for enhance levels of care by adding specialist beds and improved diagnostic capabilities.
