The Forest, Wildlife, labour and AYUSH Minister, Harak Singh Rawat, and State Minister for Higher Education Dhan Singh Rawat conducted review meetings related to medical issues of their Assembly constituencies at Vidhan Sabha on Friday.
Harak Singh Rawat while undertaking a meeting of Kotdwar Assembly said that the Homeopathy and Ayurveda college hospitals will have 60 beds. The Minister directed the officials to provide land for the Homoeopathy and Ayurveda College in the town. A decision to handover the land of medical college to Employee State Insurance (ESI) was also taken which will set up a multi specialty hospital at the site. Harak Singh also directed the officers to earmark land for setting up of Kendriya Vidhyalaya (KV) in Kotdwar.
This meeting was attended by labour secretary Alok Kumar, AYUSH secretary Harbansh Singh Chug, ESI Director Ashok Kumar and Vice Chancellor of Uttarakhand Ayurveda University, Anup Gadkhad.
In another meeting, the State Minister Dhan Singh Rawat directed the officers to improve arrangements in the Sri Nagar Medical College. He said that a radiologist should be appointed in the college within one week. The Minister also directed that the bio- metric attendance system should be installed at the hospital. He said that steps for recruitment of permanent faculty positions should be taken. The minister said that two ambulances should also be made available to the medical college.
The Director General Health Dr Archana Srivastava, Additional Secretary health Arunendra Chauhan and Principal of Srinagar Medical College Dr C M S Rawat attended the meeting.