The management of the Mahant Indiresh hospital has decided to provide discount of 25 percent to the school children, teaching and non teaching staff of schools in treatment.
The staff and students will be able to avail this discount on the presentation of their identity cards at the hospital. This is, indeed, a noble cause from hospital.
Addressing newsmen at his office on Friday, the Medical Superintendent (MS) of the hospital, Dr Vinay Rai said that the students would get discount benefit on both the OPD and IPD facilities of the hospital. “In Super-specialty services they will be able to avail discount ranging from 10 to 25 percent.
While in radio diagnostic tests like CT Scan, Doppler, Echo, Endoscopy a discount of 10 percent would be offered,’’ he said. The MS informed that the hospital has dispatched letters to the Higher Education Minister, Education Minister, Secretary Higher Education, Secretary School Education, Director Higher Education and Director School Education.
He said an appeal has been given to the education department to spread the information to all the schools of U’khand so that all the children and staff can get its benefit.
Dr Rai said that the steps has been started with the aim of 'Healthy Children-Healthy Uttarakhand' aim so that the future of the state is healthy and bright.
The MS further informed that the hospital will get associated with different government and private schools of U’khand to run a Health Awareness Programmes under which the doctors of Shri Mahant Indiresh Hospital will deliver health related talks in schools and generate awareness for better health among children.
In these programmes, the doctors will generate awareness among children about exam phobia, depression, stress, anemia (deficiency of blood) in girls, deficiency of calcium, malnutrition among children and other infectious diseases.