Mohali: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann today dedicated the Punjab Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences to the people with the aim of providing quality health services to the people of the state.
The establishment of this institute was announced in the budget session of 2022 and it will be the first government health institute in Punjab to provide patients with state-of-the-art healthcare facilities like endoscopy, fibroscopy and endoscopic ultrasound.
The experts of this organization will also provide tele-medicine services in all the government hospitals of Punjab. It is equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure for training and research facilities in Hepatology.
The institute has been set up at a cost of over Rs 40 crore and will have around 450 staff including 80 doctors, 150 staff nurses and 200 Group-D employees. Professor Varinder Singh, former Professor and Head of Hepatology PGI, Chandigarh, has been appointed as the Director of the Institute.
Liver related diseases will be specially treated through indoor and emergency services provided in this institution. Its aim is to make Punjab a center of medical health facilities across the country.
Along with this, the state headquarters and four zonal offices of the Food and Drug Administration in Punjab were also virtually inaugurated by the Chief Minister.
This state headquarters office has been built at a cost of Rs 2.63 crore while the zonal offices established at Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, Bathinda and Ferozepur have been built at a cost of around Rs 2.78 crore. Apart from this, four more zonal offices are under construction in Ludhiana, Amritsar, Patiala and Hoshiarpur, the construction of which will be completed soon.