Union Coal Secretary Anil Swaroop visited and inspected BPl Hospital, Gandhinagar Central Hospital and met the students of ‘CCl Ke lal’ on Wednesday, gathering an idea of how the Coal India subsidiary is working for the public welfare and community service.
While inspecting the BPl Hospital (Jan Arogya Kendra) CMD of CCl Gopal Singh apprised Swaroop of the BPl hospital and said that the main objective of CCl is ‘Upliftment of downtrodden, villagers and employees’ and this Arogya Kendra was set up to meet CCl’s objective for making free medical facilities available to the needy. Dr. PK Gupta, CMS gave a detailed description about the activities of BPl Hospital to the Coal Secretary.
Swaroop also visited Gandhinagar Central Hospital where Dr. Nutan Singh, CMS, Dr. RR Sinha and others welcomed him. The Coal Secretary then inspected super specialty clinic, ICU, ICCU and dialysis centre and enquired about the facilities available there. He also interacted with the specialist doctors of different departments viz. medicine, skin, surgery and dialysis. The doctors apprised him about the medical facilities being provided here. ‘Doctors should keep themselves update about the latest technologies in medical fields’, he said. The doctors replied in affirmative and said that they are attending different workshops/seminars etc for updating their knowledge.
The Union Coal Secretary also met the students of ‘CCl Ke lal’ in their classroom and shared their views. While briefing about ‘CCl Ke lal’ programme, the CMD informed Swaroop that the students were from amongst project affected families and ward of employees. “They are selected through written examination and get admitted in DAV Gandhinagar School in Class XI where they are getting free boarding, loding and coaching facilities. 11 students were selected in 2012 and presently, all of them are studying in different engineering colleges of India. At present 22 students are studying under this scheme,” he said.
Gopal Singh, CMD, DK Ghosh, Director (Fin), RS Mahapatra, GM (IR), Dr. Nutan Singh, Dr. RR Singh, Dr. RR Sinha, doctors, Para medical staff and employs where present during the occasion.