In order to provide better health services to the tourists during Char Dham Yatra, Uttarakhand Health Minister Surendra Singh Negi chaired a meeting with the officers of different government and well-known private medical institutions in the Vidhan Sabha auditorium on Wednesday.
He appealed the well-known medical institutions like Himalayan Institute & Hospital Trust, Jollygrant, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Sri Guru Ram Rai Medical College, IMA and others to cooperate with government to provide better medical facilities to the pilgrims during Yatra season in the State.
By his initiative, Max Super Specialty Hospital, Dehradun will deploy a medical team in Gaurikund of Rudraprayag district during yatra season.
Apart from this, a medical team will also be deployed in Community health centre, Karnaprayag of Chamoli district. In the meeting, it was decided that in the yatra route, Max will hold a three days’ training programme on advance life support for the medical team members who will be deploy in the various heath centres in the state.
Volunteers of Shantikunj, Haridwar will be given a day long training on basic life support. Max will provide Clinical Protocol to the health department in order to cure the tourists from different health related diseases during yatra season. In addition to this, telemedicine will be provided by the Max.
Thakrasi Charitable hospital, Ahmadabad, will deploy its specialist doctors at places like Karnaprayag, Joshimath, Rudraprayag and Uttarkashi.
A medical camp will be organised in Rishikesh and MBBS students of Himalayan Institute will conduct health check up for tourists and medicine will be provided to them.