Vice President Hamid Ansari has said that it is imperative for the State to provide health care coverage to all especially marginalized and deprived sections of the Society. It is time to provide attention on preventive care for them. He was addressing on the completion of third years of ILBS, which is an autonomous society under the City Government. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit presided over the function.
Speaking on this occasion Ansari stated the importance of joint efforts by the Government Agencies and NGOs to work in the filed of health care. He expressed confidence that the ILBS on commissioning of its phase-II would provide additional facilities and would become a model institute in Liver and Billiary Sciences.
Dikshit stated that the City Government would provide grant for establishing an endowment chair in the Institute. Earlier Dr. Sarin requested the Government to help in establishing three endowment chairs. Smt. Dikshit while underlining the need of prevention stated that her Government would also help in extending reach of the Institute by deploying number of mobile units to bring awareness on prevention of liver and Biliary diseases and provide initial treatment at the doorstep of the people.
Dikshit added that the Phase-II, which is under construction through DMRC and likely to be made functional by the end of 2013 after which, additional facilities will either be created or the facilities under Phase-I will be duly supplemented with and would perhaps include, state-of-the-art new ICUs, Cancer therapy unit, Kidney unit, research wings, auditorium to make it into a full-fledged ILBS Deemed-to-be-University.
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