Shillong: Union Health and Family Welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya said new facilities at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) in Meghalaya will provide the much-needed healthcare services to the people of the North Eastern Region and will attract and retain medical professionals in the region.
The Union Minister’s comment came a time when NEIGRIHMS is losing doctors who left Shillong to serve in other hospitals in Assam and superspeciality hospitals in the country.
Mandaviya who came to Shillong in Meghalaya on Saturday to inaugurate the 252-bedded state-of-the-art regional cancer centre at NEIGRIHMS, said that the Central government is committed to improve health infrastructure in the North Eastern Region and to provide quality healthcare services for the people of the region.
Mandaviya also inaugurated a new under-graduate medical college, new building of nursing college, hostels, 8 modular operation theatres, a virtual autopsy and new guest house at NEIGRIHMS. He also laid the foundation stone for critical care block at the institute
“The new facilities at NEIGRIHMS will provide the much-needed healthcare services to the people of the North Eastern Region and will attract and retain medical professionals in the Northeast region,” Mandaviya said.
Stating that the central government looks at the health sector through a holistic approach, Mandaviya said, “We are not only creating new and advanced medical infrastructure. We are also increasing the number of doctors and nursing staff.”
In the last nine years, he said, the number of medical colleges has doubled in the country. 1,70,000 Health and Wellness Centres have been created across the country.
“We are also building one Critical Care unit in every district in the country”, he said.
Echoing the Union Minister, Director of NEIGRIHMS Prof. Nalin Mehta said the new facilities will vastly improve healthcare facilities in NEIGRIHMS and will lead to increase in seats for MBBS and B.Sc. Nursing courses in Meghalaya.
“With the improvement of medical facilities in the Northeast region, people will not have to go far to other regions of the country for medical treatment,” Metha said.
