PGI Satellite Centre don’t run at different locations: Dr.Rao
Ferozepur, December 23, 2016: The nine member visiting team opined that 100-bedded PGI Satellite Centre in Ferozepur cannot be run at different locations as the minimum land of 25 acres is required at one place, said Dr.Rao when Parminder Singh Pinky, Congress MLA took the 9-member team visited Ferozepur today to the designated location for the PGI Satellite Centre.
With this, the residents of Ferozepur border town and the entire border belt will be deprived of treatment for chronic diseases like Cancer, in the absence of adequate medical facilities,
Despite nod by the governing body after much dilly-dallying, of setting up the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Ferozepur, which was sanctioned way back in 2013 during the fag-end of the UPA-II regime,
On giving a suggestion to start OPD temporarily by Pinky, after inspecting the ground of the local government ITI, adjoining the Civil Hospital and newly constructed building of Eye Centre, the team members said, the OPD can be started in case the adequate building is provided by the government within a period of two months.
Dr.Rao from PGI Faculty and Engineering Administration, Chandigarh and members of the team said, the land for the PGI Satellite Centre is required at one place and not at different locations.
The denied of having information about the transfer of land ‘where and when’ besides its transfer to PGI.
Sources said, the team had come to see the relevant record of transfer of land as being claimed by the Punjab Government.
Added here, earlier also the team has visited the proposed site at Ferozepur twice and during its last inspection on May, 2015, verbal consent was also accorded but nothing happened due to lack of anything in writing.
In the first phase, 16.5 acre has already been transferred by the state government and after the visit of the PGI team in May, another 5.5-acre piece of land at the ITI ground was identified and a proposal to transfer the above land to the health department was sent to the secretary, Housing Board, Punjab. and finally, the Punjab cabinet, approved the proposal on Thursday.
Initially, Parkash Singh Badal, Chief Minister, had given his nod to the proposal mooted by the financial commissioner (development) to allot 25 out of 50 acres of gram panchayat land at Wajidpur village to the local horticulture department in exchange of their land to be given for the centre, but the same could not materialize.
