MANDI: Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said the make-shift hospital of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Medical College and Hospital Mandi would be used for super specialty services once the pandemic was completely over. The steps would be taken to fill up vacant posts of doctors in the medical college, he added.
Addressing the closing ceremony of IRIS 2022 of SLBSGM College & Hospital) at Ner Chowk Chief Minister said he had been witness to the steady growth of this medical college. SLBSGM College & Hospital aims to provide high quality education and healthcare through highly skilled, dedicated and compassionate doctors and staff, he added.
The SLBSGM College was providing medical facility to people of four districts Mandi, Kullu, Lahaul Spiti and Bilaspur districts. At present 23 Departments are functioning and process for establishment of other departments and facility is under process. The college has in -take capacity of 120 seats annually, he added.
Chief Minister said that despite being a small State, Himachal Pradesh today has six medical colleges in Government sector alone. State Government has decided to fill up 500 post of doctors to strength health infrastructure in the State.
He said that this medical College also played a crucial role in treatment of Covid-19 patients during the pandemic. State Government would sympathetically consider to increase the stipend of the trainee doctors and place for playground for students of the college will be identified, he added.
Chief Minister released College Magazine ‘Asclepius’ on the occasion. He also administered Blood Donation Oath on the occasion of World Blood Donor’s Day. He also distributed prizes to the winners of different events on the occasion.
Principal, SLBSGM College, Dr. Rajesh Kumar gave details of various activities of the College. This hospital has been started with bed capacity of 250 beds in the year 2018, but now the bed capacity has increased to 500, he added.
He thanked the Chief Minister for filling up about 20 posts of specialist Doctors in the Hospital as a result of which the hospital was now running smoothly .
President SCA of College, Sachin Grewal said that in the IRIS Fest 2022, about 1150 MBBS students participated in various kind of sports, cultural and academic activities, out of them 450 students are participating from five other medical colleges of the state.
