Sudhansh Pant, Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare inaugurated the Department of Telemedicine, Regional Resource Center and Center of Excellence for Article Intelligence at AIIMS Rishikesh. With the opening of this new department in the institute, the superspecialist doctors of AIIMS will now be able to provide health consultation to people in remote areas of the state through telemedicine.
With this, a new department of telemedicine service has now come into existence at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS Rishikesh. Inaugurating this department under a program on Saturday, Sudhansh Pant, Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare described this facility as more than Sanjeevani for Uttarakhand. Said that with this service of AIIMS, it will be easier to provide health services and health counseling to remote areas of Uttarakhand.
He expressed hope that the services of this department would be covered across the state under the leadership of Professor Meenu Singh, Executive Director of the Institute. It is notable that Lal Bahadur Shastri Administrative Academy Mussoorie, Government Hospital Kotdwar and Ramakrishna Mission Seva Ashram located at Kankhal Haridwar are already directly connected with the telemedicine service of the institute. Now, with the creation of a separate department for this health facility in the institute, its benefits will be available at other places of the state as well.
On this occasion, the Institute’s Executive Director Professor Meenu Singh said that through telemedicine service, super specialist doctors of AIIMS will be able to give health related consultations through telemedicine as per the pre-determined time by the telemedicine department. He said that while developing facilities in this department, arrangements have been made for soundproof chambers, separate cabins for consultant doctors and high speed network internet facility for communication under National Knowledge Network. The services of this department, which operates OPD of telemedicine to different places of the state, will be operated from the sixth floor located in A block of the institute.
Discussion on acceptance of various proposals
Standing Finance Committee (SFC) meeting concluded at AIIMS Rishikesh. In this meeting, various proposals were discussed in relation to providing financial approval for various schemes of the institute. In this meeting chaired by Sudhansh Pant, Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, proposals for financial approval for various development works and schemes of the institute were discussed. During the meeting, financial approval was given on several issues related to various schemes. During this, Jaideep Mishra, Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor, Ministry of Health, Ankita Mishra Bundela, Joint Secretary of the Ministry, Professor Meenu Singh, Executive Director of AIIMS, Financial Advisor Colonel S. Siddharth and Deputy Director (Administration) Colonel Rakesh Kumar and Medical Superintendent Professor Sanjeev Kumar Mittal, Professor Shailendra Handu and various senior officers of the institute were present. In this important meeting of the committee, Professor Gurpreet Singh of PGI Chandigarh and Professor A.K. Of. Puri joined through video conferencing.
visited different wards
Sudhansh Pant, Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, made an intensive visit to various departments of AIIMS Rishikesh, various wards of the hospital, trauma ward in trauma center etc. Along with taking various important information from the AIIMS administration, necessary guidelines were given. On the second day of AIIMS tour, Union Health Secretary Sudhansh Pant visited various departments, wards of All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh and got important information from doctors and patients. During this, the Union Health Secretary made an intensive visit to the Institute’s Eye Bank, Kidney Transplant Unit, Neuro Surgery Ward, Trauma Emergency, Telemedicine Trauma Ward in Trauma Center, where the Head of the Department, Prof. Qamar Azam, Dr. Madhur Uniyal were present. Apart from this, the Health Secretary made a thorough inspection of several other IPD wards of the hospital and interacted with the patients admitted in the neurosurgery wards, as well as the newly constructed 42-bed Pediatrics ICU and 150-bed Trauma Emergency Ward under construction. During this, saplings were planted by him in the institute premises, along with he also visited ShriAnn Cafe operated here.
On this occasion, Health Secretary, Government of India Sudhansh Pant held a meeting with Institute’s Executive Director Professor Dr. Meenu Singh and Medical Superintendent Professor Sanjeev Kumar Mittal and discussed the progress and other important points of AIIMS Institute. Dr. Rajneesh Kumar Arora, Head of Neuro Surgery Department, Dr. Ankur Mittal, Deputy Medical Superintendent Amit Tyagi etc. were present in the meeting.
