Grassroot health centres step up,7.9 lakh patients treated at 43 dispensaries in 2012

The Government Multi Specialty Hospital in Sector 16 follows the dispensaries in terms of patients treated,having tended to 5.96 lakh of them. Of these,53,822 patients have been treated at the Paediatrics department,1.5 lakh were admitted to the Casualty ward while 1.11 lakh patients were examined at the department of general medicine throughout last year.

Patients have also been given the benefit of government schemes and are not confined yo Chandigarh alone. Of the 5.96 lakh treated at the GMSH 16,12,576 patients were given free treatment under the poor free treatment scheme of the government and while 51,467 patients were from Chandigarh,16,553 were from Punjab and 9,879 patients landed here from Haryana.

Speaking with Chandigarh newsline,Dr Rajiv Vadera,the director of UT’s Health Services,said: “We are making an effort to get more doctors from NRHM. Once we are able to get doctors,we will be able to extend these benefits to more patients such as the children and the elderly in the evenings as well. Besides,we are also in the process of strengthening our labour rooms and emergency services.”

The Administration is also making efforts to further improve the healthcare system. The recent budget has allocated Rs 11.95 lakh for the upgradation of the CHC,Mani Majra,to a 100-bed hospital; the CHC,Sector 22,to a 100-bed hospital and the Polyclinic at Burail to a 50-bed hospital.