Paramedic centre planned in Chandigarh
By IANSMonday, January 17, 2011
CHANDIGARH - The government will set up a centre of excellence in paramedics in the city in the coming months, union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said here Monday evening.
We are going to have a centre of excellence in paramedics in Chandigarh. The government of India will sanction a budget of Rs.100 crore for this project. I have also told Chandigarh MP P.K. Bansal to find an appropriate space for it, said Azad.
Besides, we will open six new medical institutes in other states by the end of this year. These will be established at Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Uttrakhand, Jharkhand and Bihar,” he said.
“After the coming up of these medical institutes, the workload and pressure on PGIMER (Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research) here will be far less as compared to today, he added.
Azad was in the city to inaugurate the second clinical block of the HSJ Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital here.
