Adesh University adopts six villages for health services

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, February 18

Adesh University has decided to pay back society by providing comprehensive health and medical services and to fulfill its objective, the university has adopted six villages of Bathinda district including, Bhucho Khurd, Bhucho Kalan, Tungwali, Bhaliana, Kan Singh Wala, and Lehra Mohabbat, to extend healthcare services to residents of these villages.

These medical services will be available both on out-patient and inpatient basis. Basic services will be free and specialised services are highly subsidised.

Patients from the adopted villages will not pay any money for OPD services, open surgeries, routine blood and urine tests.

Cataract surgeries have been kept free of cost. Deliveries, both normal and caesarian, for pregnant women, who are booked with the hospital, will be without any charges.

Similarly, there will be no registration fees for dental treatment and extraction or filling of teeth cavities.

To convey special facilities to adopted villages, a meeting of sarpanchs and representatives from these villages was called on January 22, 2016, at the office of Dr Gurpreet Singh Gill, medical superintendent (administration) and plans were discussed with them.

Dr Harkiran Kaur, principal, Adesh Medical College, informed them that this scheme was, at this stage, for adopted villages only and each member of a household would be given an identity card, which would have to be brought to the hospital for availing special facilities.

The village survey started with Bhucho Khurd under the leadership of Dr Tanveer Sidhu with her teams with each team comprising a doctor, a dentist and a nursing employee.

The teams will visit each household, collect baseline data, sensitise people and generate health awareness.

The survey by the empowered teams will give base lines of health and medical requirements and impact of medical services rendered by Adesh Institutions in the long run.

Dr Harkiran Kaur claimed that Adesh University was committed to fulfilling its objectives of serving society, educating the residents of these villages on the healthcare they need and extending the healthcare facilities as enumerated in the attached pamphlet.

The university will further prepare identity cards and healthcare record cards of all the beneficiaries from these villages and plans to maintain record of the entire population of the adopted villages at Adesh Hospital and other healthcare centres set up by its medical and dental colleges.