With the aim of providing better medical services to the patients and strengthening medical education, approval has been given to increase 35 new super specialty seats in Chandigarh PGI. These seats are being increased in 5 departments, which will improve the quality of super specialty services.
The Ministry of Health and the Medical Council of India (MCI) have approved this proposal. Also, this proposal has also been approved by the Standing Finance Committee (SFC) of PGI.
Proposal sent to Finance Ministry
The proposal to increase DM and MCH seats by PGI has now been sent to the Finance Ministry. The purpose of this decision is to promote advanced medical training and meet the increasing demand for specialist doctors. These seats have been included in the Senior Resident (Academic) category to promote clinical training and research.
Both patients and the institute will benefit
The increase in new seats will improve the availability of super specialty services in PGI. This will provide better medical services to the patients and will make access to treatment of serious diseases easier. The PGI administration says that this decision will not only strengthen the education sector but patients will also get high quality medical services.
Approval to faculty of satellite center
Along with increasing the seats of DM and MCH, regular faculty and non-faculty posts have also been approved in PGI. Apart from this, approval has been given for appointment of faculty for satellite centers Firozpur and Una. This will fill the shortage of doctors and patients will get better health facilities. These posts include faculty, nursing, para-medical staff, HA and security staff, among others.
