SHIMLA: The healthcare system in the country faces a major challenge as 75 per cent people reside in rural areas, President Pranab Mukherjee said today, while underlining the need to expand the infrastructure to ensure “equitable” and “quality” medical services to all.
Presiding over the golden jubilee convocation of Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) here, the President said, “Medical care is a basic requirement of people and there is need for providing better medical se ..
Pranab also recalled Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings of “being the change you want to see” and said Gandhiji always talked about welfare of the weakest and poorest persons to arrive at correct decisions.
The President gave away 97 MBBS degrees, 87 Post Graduate degrees, 6 PG Diploma and 6 super speciality degrees at the ceremony. He also awarded gold medals to meritorious students.
Speaking on the occasion, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh appealed to all the graduate and postgraduate students to serve the humanity with compassion, dedication and love without any monetary greed.
He said that it was a matter of pride for any institution to complete a long successful journey and celebrate its 50 years of existence.
Singh said IGMC, formed in 1966, is among few medical colleges in north India having facilities for cardiac catheterisation and angiographic services and open heart surgery facility.
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