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Inauguration of Golden Jubilee
Celebrations of PGIMER
7th July, 2012
Golden
Jubilee celebrations were inaugurated at the PGIMER in the august presence of
Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources
and Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of Govt.
of India.
Shri
Montek Singh Ahluwalia appreciated the contribution of the Institute and said it
had a high reputation in the country and an international standing. As an
economist, while talking about the economics of health sector he said,
"Substantial government funding is needed in the 12th Five Year Plan to serve
the difficulties which are being faced, with only 4% of the total expenditure
being done for this sector. Both the Central and State Governments need to
spend much more on health and also expand on health education. Many more
medical institutes are the need of the hour as human resource in health care is
the key issue." Shri Ahluwalia emphasized on public and preventive health to
reduce the burden of disease and said that taking care of non-communicable
diseases was the need of the hour. Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal remarked that he had
seen PGI grow from strength to strength and despite the pressures, the attitude
had always been to serve the humanity with compassion. PGI had always been,
according to him, a boon for the city. Not only PGI but even the citizens of
the city needed to celebrate the golden jubilee, he commented.
Shri
Gulam Nabi Azad, Hon'ble Union Health Minister could not attend the function due
to his getting indisposed. But in his message he said, "I am sure that in
times to come, PGIMER would become a leader in promoting a broad understanding
of health through trans-disciplinary education and an integrated approach toward
multi-sector applications of cost effective public health solutions. On behalf
of the Ministry, I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate our
commitment to this great, national institution of excellence. We will
continue to provide all support necessary in the Institute's pursuit of
excellence and hope that the high quality work being done at the Institute will
flourish, helping the nation to attain social equity through the goal of 'health
for all'."
Earlier while informing about the achievements in the last fifty years
Prof.Yogesh Chawla, Director PGIMER said, "The faculty of PGIMER, in addition to
providing the best of patient care and medical education actively pursues
medical research which is evident by the high class publications in
reputed journals every year. Last year itself there were more than 771 research
papers most of which were published in high impact factor journals. Over the
years, the faculty of the Institute has brought laurels to the Institute by
receiving numerous awards like those of the Indian Council of Medical Research,
B.C. Roy of MCI, and Fellowships of various associations including NAMS, Swasth
Bharat Samman, Outstanding Educator Award and recognition by the Royal College
of Physicians besides orations, president-ships, memberships and fellowships of
academic societies. The institute in the field of research is striving for more
international recognition by collaborating with the international universities
of repute. Over the years the amount of extra mural grants for various research
projects managed by the PGIMER faculty has been increasing and last year itself
it touched the figure of around Rs. 33 crores."
"………PGIMER is always the most sought after Institute for medical education. We
have a total of 16 MD Courses, 4 MS Courses, 16 DM Courses and 6 M.Ch. Courses
besides Dental, Nursing and Medical Technology Courses. The Institute till date
has produced 4450, 1544 super-specialists and a large number of post-graduates
in allied and basic sciences. Over the last 2 years many new training programmes
have been added in various specialties. To name a few these are DM
Cardiac Anaesthesia/Clinical Hematology/Hematopathology/Pediatric Neurology/Neuro-anaesthesia
and Pediatric Radiology some of which are only available here. The institute
has also initiated many new courses now being emulated by other institutes in
the country", he said.
Prof.S.K.Jindal, Chairman, Golden Jubilee Celebrations informed the gathering
about the year-long activities to be held in PGIMER to celebrate the Golden
Jubilee. There would be commemorative activities like releasing a postal stamp,
alumni-meet, scientific conferences, annual research week-end, research grants
and fellowships, visiting and training fellowships, postdoctoral fellowships for
clinical scientists, upgradation of central research facility, as well as,
orations and awards.
During
the function former Directors of PGIMER Prof.I.C.Pathak, Prof.B.K.Sharma,
Prof.S.K.Sharma and Prof.K.K.Talwar were felicitated. A commemorative
documentary on PGIMER was shown to the audience and souvenirs were released by
Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia. Mementoes were presented to the guests on the dias.
Prof.
Amod Gupta, Dean PGI delivered the vote of thanks and Prof.Kusum Joshi, Sub Dean
PGI conducted the function.
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