CM Harish Rawat flagged off five mobile health vans from his residence on Wednesday. These vans are donated by the Hans Foundation. Speaking on the occasion, Rawat said that initially these vehicles would be operated on the Char Dham Yatra route so that the Yatra is smoothly operated.
He asked the officials to deploy these vehicles at the places where the health services are lacking along the Yatra route. CM said that since these vehicles are fitted with modern equipments, they would be used as mobile primary health centres on the Yatra route.
He said that these vans would later provide health services in the remote areas of State. The Principal Secretary health, Om Prakash said that these vans would be stationed at important points of Char Dham route like Muni ki Reti-Kirtinagar, Gochar-Badrinath, Rudraprayag-Phata, Gairsain-Karanprayag, Chinyalisaur- Gangotri and Damta-Janaki Chatti. The Hans foundation has pledged to donate 21 mobile health vans to strengthen the State health services. It plans to provide one vehicle each for every district of State while eight vehicles would be provided to the State disaster relief force. The programe was also attended by the MlA Hira Singh Bisht, Sec health, Bhupender Kaur Olakh, Director General health services, Kusum Nariyal, Manoj Bhatt and Krishna Trivedi from the Hans foundation.