Ramkrishan Upadhyay
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 21
In a major push for expansion of specialised services, VP Singh Badnore, Governor of Punjab and UT Administrator, has approved two super specialty departments at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32. With the approval to new departments, the number of super specialty wings in the hospital has gone up to three. The Cardiology Department has been functional for more than one year.
Anurag Agarwal, Home-cum-Health Secretary, said with the approval to the two super specialty departments, the related infrastructure would also be approved soon. The recruitment of specialists in the new departments would also start in due course of time.
At present, the specialists of urology and neurosurgery are working under the Department of Surgery.
Professor AK Janmeja, Director Principal of the medical college, said the two departments would improve patient care in a big way.
He said in a majority of road accident cases, patients required immediate services of neurosurgeons. The full-fledged urology departments would cater to the need of patients who required specialised services of the doctors for kidney and related ailments.