Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday said that the State Government was mulling for separate chopper services from tribal and remote areas to lift the patients to leading health institution of the country.
Presiding over the meeting of stakeholders of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) at Keylong, Singh said the Government was keen to establish linkage with leading national health institutes for ensuring access to expert guidance and advice in diagnosis and treatment.
He said there was a need to update health services in far-flung areas of the State and urged for co-operation from the leading heath institutions of the country.
He said three more medical colleges in the State were coming up for which a provision of Rs189 crore each had been made. An AIIMS like institution was also coming up in Bilaspur district.
The Chief Minister also assured to provide the required land for ICMR field station in Keylong. Virbhadra Singh said that the doctors should willingly come forward to serve in the tribal and far-flung areas. He said the Government would ensure that posts of doctors and para-medical staff were filled up in these areas.
Dr SK Sharma Professor and Head of Department of Medicines, AIIMS, while speaking on the occasion said that the tele-medicine project was a dream project which would be started in all the tribal areas of the State. He suggested for training of nurses here who further could be trained through tele-medicine later.
He said that whatever research was being made should be thorough and treated as per the type of illness prevailing in the area. He suggested for a modern machine detecting Tuberculosis in seconds and assured for all possible help from AIIMS to strengthen health services in the State.