Council demands coloured OPD slips for elderly in Chamba

Our Correspondent

Chamba, October 10

The Chamba District Progressive Council favours separate coloured OPD slips for senior citizens in the local medical college and hospital so that they do not have to stand in queues.

A meeting of the council was held under the chairmanship of its president Chander Sehgal here on Friday. The participants lauded the initiative of PJNGMC principal Dr Ramesh Bharti to set up the 15-bed dedicated Covid hospital (DCH) in its existing hospital building with a provision of ventilators.

“With this initiative, critically-ill Covid patients will no longer be referred to the faraway Tanda medical college,” council vice-president Major SC Nayyar said.

Surgeries for cancer were now being conducted in the medical college, he said. Various other issues of public interest were also discussed in the meeting, he added.