CS: Open IPD at Bathinda AIIMS by month-end

Chandigarh, September 3

In order to provide best possible healthcare facilities and further ramp up the health infrastructure to effectively deal with any exigency in future, the Chief Secretary, Vini Mahajan, directed the authorities concerned to open the IPD (in patient department) services at the upcoming All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bathinda by September-end, besides making functional the under-establishment PGI satellite centre in Sangrur by October.

Chairing a high-level meeting here, the Chief Secretary was apprised that the construction work of PGI satellite centre in Ferozepur was awarded last month and would be completed within 39 months. — TNS