Restore OPDs in Tanda college: MLA to CM

Our Correspondent

Palampur, June 1

Ashish Butail, MLA and general secretary, HPPCC, today urged Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur to restore OPDs for critical care patients.

The departments had been shut by Tanda medical college last month when Covid was on its peak in the district.

Addressing mediapersons here, Butail said the college was the biggest medical institution in the lower hills which cater to the medical needs of the one-third population of the state. Unfortunately, the medical college had stopped attending to critical patients suffering from ailments like cancer, heart and kidney diseases.

The TMC had discontinued the radiotherapy and chemotherapy in its oncology department, besides cardiac surgeries.

He told the Chief Minister since Covid cases had come down in the district, the TMC should focus on non-Covid patients so that they could get medical care. He said because of the pandemic, non-Covid patients had already suffered a lot.

He said such patients were in urgent need of medical care and the government should immediately restore medical services.