New strides

In the past 11 months, especially during the second wave of pandemic, the government of Jammu and Kashmir has taken a lot of projects of the health care system in their hands in order to provide relief to the common people.

In this direction recently Manoj Sinha inaugurated 100-bedded Emergency Block at Government Medical College, Jammu and new 50-bedded Government hospital at Gangyal to the public.

He said that it is the priority of the government to save precious human lives by providing the quality health care facilities to people requiring immediate care. The new health facilities will strengthen the emergency patient care system; ensure better clinical management, besides adding to the available bed capacity catering to more patients.

Saving precious human lives by substantially improving the health infrastructure on a continuous basis is the Government’s top priority, Manoj Sinha told the media while inaugurating these health facilities.

New facilities inaugurated recently will further complement the Government’s efforts in providing quality treatment to the patients.

He called for putting all-out efforts to further improve the functioning of health institutions by optimum utilization of available resources for providing better healthcare services to all.

Costing Rs 11.50 cr, the new Emergency Block having 64 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds and 32 Beds for Emergency Department of Medicine has been established to accommodate more patients for providing specialized treatments in modern emergency & accidental services. The new Block shall be provided with 4800 LPM capacity Oxygen Generation Plant.