EMN
Kohima, August 24
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between GNRC Ltd and Pawan Hans Ltd for facilitating medi-chopper service to remote areas of North East India.
The MoU was signed by Dr. Nomal Chandra Borah, Chairman & Managing Director, GNRC Hospitals Ltd, in the presence of Anil Srivastava, IAS, Chairman-Cum-Managing Director, Pawan Hans Ltd and Joint Secretary Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India.
The service, which builds on the concept of Medireach buses – Hospitals on wheels –will regularly ferry doctors from GNRC to difficult-to-access location across the region and provide doorstep medical support to the population across the Northeastern states of Nagaland, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim. It will also bring critical patients from remote locations to centre of excellence for health care.
The medi-chopper will have ventilator & other necessary medical equipments to support patient on its way and will be taken care by doctors, trained physician & para-medicians and emergency medical technicians.
To commemorate completion of 67 years of Independence of the nation, GNRC (formerly known as Guwahati Neurological Research Centre), in association with several mass organizations Monday launch “Swasthya Yatra(Health March).
The Swasthya Yatra – launched at a community meet organized at GNRC Medical, Sila Grant, North Guwahati .The Yatra seeks to encourage individuals to achieve freedom from ill-health through preventive, promotive and curative healthcare and subsequently march ahead to other parts of North East, East and the rest of India.
Speaking on the occasion, chief guest Professor Umesh Chandra Sarma, Vice-Chancellor of Srimanta Sankardeva University of Health Sciences, said that Dr. Nomal Chandra Borah, Chairman & Managing Director, GNRC Hospitals Ltd, through this initiative, has embraced the entire society as his family – the well-being of which he has assumed the responsibility for.
