The State Government was committed to provide specialised health services to the people of the State within Himachal Pradesh for which existing health institutions and medical colleges were being modernised with latest medical equipment, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said on Saturday.
Presiding over a function organised by Department of Surgery, Indira Gandhi Medical College Shimla here, the Chief Minister said that surgery by robot was indeed a scientific miracle and an honour for IGMC to have been part of this medical feat. He said that the State Government would consider making this machine available at IGMC.
Thakur said obesity was gradually emerging as a major health problem even in hill state like Himachal Pradesh due to faulty food habits, adding that with the ‘da Vinci technology’ surgeons can perform both sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgeries using robotic-assisted surgery and operate patients by using tiny instruments through a few small incisions.
Speaker State Vidhan Sabha Rajiv Bindal said IGMC has emerged as one of the premier health institutions of the country, adding that health services were being strengthened in the State.
Director Medical Education Ravi C Sharma urged the Chief Minister to provide this Rs 24 crore machine to IGMC to facilitate the patients. The surgery was performed by Dr. Vivek Bindal son of Speaker, Rajiv Bindal.