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Dr AK Attri joined arsenic a elder lecturer successful January 1996 and was portion of the squad that founded the aesculapian college. (Express Photo)
Dr AK Attri, Director-Principal, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh, besides 1 of the laminitis members of the hospital, tells Parul its increasing from spot to strength.
You person completed a twelvemonth arsenic the GMCH-32 director-principal, what are the year’s highlights?
It has been a agelong journey, from a elemental opening to entering the tract of medicine with accordant hard enactment and absorption connected completing MBBS from IGMC Hospital, Shimla, and specialisation from the PGI, Chandigarh. I joined arsenic a elder lecturer successful January 1996 astatine the rented gathering ‘Prayaas’, and was portion of the squad that founded the aesculapian college. It has been a satisfying acquisition to spot the instauration turn ceramic by brick. As a subordinate of the founding team, we gave changeless inputs astir what needed to beryllium added and worked towards making the infirmary grow. As a prof and the caput of the Department of General Surgery, my effort has been to support adding facilities and the latest aesculapian exertion for diligent welfare. From 500 to 1,025 beds, 50 MBBS seats to 250 now, PG successful each subjects, DM successful 3 specialities, and a precocious fertile among aesculapian colleges successful the state — ceramic by brick, I person seen GMCH thriving and proceed to bash truthful arsenic its Director-Principal.
In the caller year, what’s connected your precedence list?
We volition absorption connected expediting and completing pending projects. The 280-bed expanded exigency and trauma centre volition beryllium functional by April. Besides, enactment has started for the Mother and Child Centre. In the Sector-48 hospital, we are constructing further hostels and moving to connection much services to patients. We person besides accrued the mobility of ambulances betwixt the 2 hospitals. For the convenience of the public, we are moving connected a abstracted introduction and entree for VIPs to the C Block truthful that the question of patients and unit is not restricted owed to the closure of gross fig 4. The program has been approved and enactment connected the caller gross volition commencement soon. Apart from these, multi-level parking is besides among the apical priorities.
What astir caller module and recruitment?
As galore arsenic 74 posts person been sanctioned, and 400 nurses volition beryllium recruited successful the adjacent fewer months. The TB and Respiratory Disease (TBRD) helping volition besides person full-strength faculty. The Department of Psychiatry is simply a centre of excellence, and much unit recruitment is besides planned. We person added galore beds successful the aesculapian and surgical units, including an exclusive 15-bed cardiology attraction unit. The Emergency was established successful 1996. When the caller centre opens, we volition renovate it. Besides, we volition adhd much beds to the gynaecology department.
There was a request for amended information connected campus, immoderate headway?
A program to summation information by 25 per cent and behaviour CCTV mapping is underway. All acheronian areas astatine the infirmary person present been illuminated. A caller Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) strategy volition supply computers and laptops for doctors successful OPDs to facilitate their enactment and make printed prescriptions.
With a high-pressure job, however bash you equilibrium your enactment and household life?
Our household understands the demands of the profession. My woman is simply a prof astatine the PGI, and my elder girl has an MD successful Paediatrics, portion the younger 1 has an MA successful classical music. The assemblage teaches you to beryllium humble, giving, and contented with what you have, which successful crook helps make harmony successful some nonrecreational and backstage life.
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