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Proceedings of 32nd Annual Convocation
Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Minister of Health and Family Welfare and President
of PGIMER appreciated the students who had received their research degree
awards and medals during the 32nd Convocation of PGIMER. He urged upon the
youngsters passing out today to take up assignments in rural areas for
some years, to begin with. “ I assure you that such a stint will provide
immense value addition to your clinical experience apart from the sense of
satisfaction derived from fulfilling a social obligation”, he said.
While reading out the mandate of the PGIMER the Minister said, “Over the
years PGI has been able to fulfill the role allotted to it, particularly
in providing high quality patient care to the poor people living in
difficult to access hilly states and other states of the northern region
of the country.” He apprised the audience about the various innovative
initiatives taken by the Government of India related to health under NRHM
and said several steps had been taken to increase the availability of
human resources to implement these initiatives:
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Forty-six new medical colleges had been established just in the last two
years raising the number from 289 to present day 335.
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The number of MBBS seats had gone up from 32,892 to 41,569, an increase
of 8,677 seats.
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The number of PG seats had increased form 13,000 to 22,194, an increase
of over 9,000 seats.
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The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare had sanctioned a National
Institute of Paramedical Sciences at Delhi and 8 Regional Institutes of
Excellence at Chandigarh, Lucknow, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Coimbatore,
Bhubaneswar, Patna and Aurangabad.
Earlier Prof. Yogesh Chawla, Director, PGIMER conveyed his heartiest
congratulations to the new degree holders. While informing the
audience about the recent achievements of PGI he said, “PGI continues to
retain its pre-eminent position by surging forward in terms of expansion
and upgradation. PGI is now equipped with the state-of-the-art
facilities like Cellonics Laboratory, Interventional Pulmonology Services,
a new and expanded Hemodialysis Unit with 25 dialysis stations, Advanced
Trauma Centre and Advanced Facility for Small Animal Research. A
state-of-the-art Viral Diagnostic Laboratory of Grade 1 largest in the
country with ICMR support is being established in the country. Nucleic
Acid Testing Laboratory for screening Transfusion Transmitted Viral
Infections is first of its kind in this region. High Energy Linear
Accelerator for treating cancer is being established – the only of its
kind in the country.”
While sharing his vision 2020 with the audience Prof.Chawla said, “PGI has
always been craving for more. Achieving goals has always been creating
more targets. Hence as a part of our next 10 year plan Institute is now
ready with a Vision - 2020 document where we all aspire not only to
modernize the Nehru Hospital and Research Blocks of the Institute but to
also improve the patient care, medical education and medical research. The
plan for next 10 years includes de-congestion of the Emergency, setting up
of various centres of Excellence, state-of-the-art Operation Theatres, and
exploring the pathogenesis of various diseases at molecular level.
Facility of Liver transplantation and bone marrow transplantation has been
added to the existing facility of kidney transplantation. The next step
would be to have a facility of Multi Organ Transplantation including
lungs, heart, pancreas and intestine. Stem Cell research is exploring new
horizons and we may soon have an answer in treating various diseases
through various ongoing stem cell projects.”
382 students were awarded the degrees by Shri Gulam Nabi Azad, Minister of
Health and Family Welfare and President of the Institute. During the
Convocation PhD was awarded to 28 students; DM (medical super-specialties)
of Cardiology, Clinical Pharmacology Endocrinology, Gastroenterology,
Pulmonary Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology & Neonatology to 42; MCh
(surgical super-specialties) of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery,
Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, Surgical
Gastroenterology, Urology to 39; MD in the medical specialities of
Anaesthesia, Biochemistry, Community Medicine, Dermatology, Medicine,
Microbiology, Nuclear Medicine, Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Pathology,
Psychiatry, Pharmacology, Radiodiagnosis, Radiotherapy & Transfusion
Medicine to 161; MS in the surgical specialities of Otorhinolaryngology,
orthopaedic surgery, ophthalmology & surgery to 57; MHA (Master of
Hospital Administration) to 4; MPH (Master of Public Health) to 5; MSc in
Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Medical Biotechnology, Speech & Hearing &
Medical Technology to 14 and BSc. in para-medical courses to 32.
The President awarded Gold, Silver & Bronze Medals for outstanding
research and academic excellence to the students. The medals include
Kataria Memorial Gold Medal to Dr.Kanika Sahni (for the year 2010) and
Dr.Venkata Nagarjuna Maturu (for the year 2011); Major General Amir Chand
Gold Medal to Dr. Ashvinder Raina (in PhD category, for the year 2010);
V.K.Saini Gold Medal to Dr. Shamim Ahmad; R. Nath Gold Medal in the field
of Biomedical Sciences to Dr. Ramesh Kandimalla; Aikat Memorial Gold
Medal to Ms.Arpana Verma; Silver Medals for Research Work to Dr.Vinayak
Mittal and Dr.Gaurav Kumar; Bronze Medals for Research Work to Dr. Indu
Sharma. Twenty-seven students of various medical and paramedical
courses were awarded Silver Medal and twenty-eight students Bronze Medal
for academic excellence.
Prof. Y.K Chawla, Director PGIMER presented a memento to the President of
the Institute. Prof. Amod Gupta, Dean PGI facilitated the process of
giving degrees to the students and Prof. Vinay Sakhuja, Chairman,
Institute Function Committee, PGIMER conducted the function. Various
Dignitaries, the faculty, students, their parents and other staff of PGI
attended the function.
Speeches of Health Minister & Director, PGIMER on XXXII PGI Convocation
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