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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