CHANDIGARH: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare, during its visit to PGIMER, assured authorities of full support from the Centre for approval to various schemes and for monetary help to make the hospital better equipped during Covid times.
A parliamentary standing committee of the Union ministry of health and family welfare, led by chairperson Dr Ram Gopal Yadav inspected the healthcare system at PGIMER with 12 official members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, including Dr L Hanumanthaiah, Indu Bala Goswami, Dr Sanghamitra Maurya, Arjunlal Meena, K Navaskani, advocate Adoor Prakash, Hazi Fazlur Rehman, Dr Rajdeep Roy, Dr D N V Senthikumar S, Dr Mahesh Sharma, Dr Sujey Radhakrishna and Dr rishan Pal Singh.
The committee visited various PGI departments including advance eye centre, IGRT Complex dept of Radiotherapy, GAMMA Knife Center.
The team also held a review meeting with PGI officials and heads of various departments to get feedback on problems faced and shortcomings in delivering faultless health services to patients.
The committee reviewed implementation of Central government schemes like Ayushman Bharat, mental health in contemporary times, medical devices, vaccination status, affordability of cancer treatment, management and mitigation of Covid-19 and construction of satellite centers at Sangrur, Una and Ferozepur to provide better medical facilities to poor patients.
PGI director Prof Jagat Ram said, “The Parliamentary committee asked about Covid management and pace of centers coming up on the campus. We have been asked to prepare a reply to a few more questions by them. We shall send them those details.”
One of the committee members said, “We have assured PGI to help them in getting all sanctions from the Central government to implement various schemes to deliver best health services to patients. We have also reviewed preparation of the hospital to cater to the third possible Covid-19 wave and we found all arrangements satisfactory.”
Earlier, the committee visited the Ayushman Health and Wellness Center (HWC) at Primary Health Care (PHC) Services in Dadumajra. The team inspected the HWC and inquired about the schemes being delivered to the patients and found it satisfactory.
