Panchkula hospital to have DNB courses in medicine, paediatrics

Sanjay Bumbroo

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, June 23

The Panchkula Health Department will introduce Diplomate of National Board (DNB) courses in medicine, paediatrics and gynaecology in the Sector 6 Civil Hospital from next year and the proposal in this regard has been sent to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. 

The courses are being started in the hospital to meet the shortage of specialised manpower and this will not only help the civil hospital, but all hospitals located in the northern India. Once the hospital gets approval, the process for admitting students to the specialised courses in medicine, paediatrics and gynaecology will start for the next academic session. Around half of the seats will be reserved for the MBBS candidates. 

Dr Gopal Krishan Bhardwaj, Principal Medical Officer, Civil Hospital, Sector 6, said they had sent the proposal which would help improve the emergency services at the hospital. He said they had recently started a DNB radiology course and two students had already joined this week and a team of four doctors would also join.

Earlier, the ultrasound facility in the hospital was only available during the day. With the start of the new course, the facility would be available 24x7 for the patients. The main aim of starting the courses was to improve the emergency services, research activity and patient care at the hospital, Dr Bhardwaj said.

He said they had also formed a core specialty WhatsApp group in which all doctors of the hospital had been added. He said through the group the services of all doctors holding specialisation in their respective fields would be available round-the-clock. This would assist the doctors on emergency duty by providing them their opinion on the emergency cases such as fatal accident cases. He said this would also help in reducing the number of patients being referred to the GMCH-32 or the PGIMER.