There is no change in original plan to make Gandhi Centenary Eye Hospital (GCEH) a superspeciality centre for eye care claimed the Secretary Health Nitesh Jha while interacting with newsmen at his office on Tuesday. The Pioneer in its edition of May 20 had raised the issue of government negligence on GCEH. With plans to convert GCEH a part of district hospital, apprehensions was being raised about fate of the hospital originally conceived as super specialty centre.
Jha said that since the hospital has ample space, it has been decided to start Mother and Child Care unit there. He said that one entire floor would be totally dedicated for the eye patients and more specialists of ophthalmology would be recruited there. As per the plan to reduce patient load on Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital, the state health department is working on a plan to strengthen the GCEH and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (Coronation) hospital. Jha informed that a comprehensive mother and child care unit complete with Operation Theatres (OT), neo natal unit, blood bank and other necessary requirement within a month. In Coronation hospital units of surgery, neurosurgery and orthopaedics would start.