Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad will lay the foundation stone of the PGI Satellite Centre on Thursday at Village Ghabdan, Sangrur. The Government of Punjab has allocated 25 acres of land to the Institute for setting up of the Centre.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be the chief guest. Santosh Chaudhary, Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare and Vijay Inder Singla, MP, Sangrur will be the guests of honour.
The Satellite Centre will have 300 bed hospital and teaching facility, in the first phase with outreach community health services programme in predominantly rural population.
The Centre will have key medical and surgical departments of internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, pediatrics, anaesthesia, radiology, radiotherapy, ophthalmology, ENT, dental, community and family medicine and psychiatry considering prevalent morbidity and mortality pattern and the health needs of the community. In addition to it the Centre will have provision for residential quarters for faculty and staff.
The common causes of morbidity in Sangrur, as per District Human Development Report 2010, are respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, skin related diseases, hematological diseases, ophthalmic diseases, diabetes, hypertension and cancer.
There will be two superspeciality departments of Hepatology and Nephrology keeping in view high prevalence of alcoholic liver diseases and kidney diseases to start with, which will expand in due course of time as per requirements.
A Population Based Cancer Registry (PBCR) has already been initiated in the district, in partnership with Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai and PGI. There will be provision of 24 hour emergency services along with out patient and in patient services.
Department of community medicine will adopt and develop one selected Community Health Centre, which will provide services at the community level and play a critical role in strengthening national programs and operational research in collaboration with the Punjab Government.
The hospital will serve as a referral centre to health services of adjoining districts as well as to PGIMER. Above all this, training of health staff and consultancy services will also be provided to state health services.