Daljeet Kaur/Sunam Udham Singh Wala, May 1, 2023: Under the leadership of the Chief Minister Punjab Bhagwant Mann, the state government has regularly been taking major initiatives in the direction of fulfilling the set goal of providing the best health facilities in the state. Under the same commitment, the shortage of doctors for emergency services at Community Health Center Longowal under Sunam Assembly Constituency has been resolved.
While thanking Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and Health Minister Dr. Balbir Singh, Punjab Cabinet Minister Aman Arora said that he raised the issue of lack of medical officers, gynecologists and medicine specialists in the emergency department of Community Health Center Longowal with the government as a large number of patients were facing problems due to shortage of qualified doctors.
Cabinet Minister Aman Arora said that with the funds released by the Punjab government from time to time in the last one year, the all-round development projects of Sunam constituency was under progress and their government was also committed to provide quality health facilities to the residents. The Cabinet Minister said that now, the Health Department has appointed 5 medical officers to provide 24X7 emergency services in Community Health Center Longowal and the doctors were Dr. Manpreet Kaur, Dr. Charu Goyal, Dr. Malkit Singh, Dr. Kapil Goyal and Dr. Amandeep Kaur who will provide services at the Emergency Department as well as OPD as per the prescribed time table so that the patients get proper treatment facilities on time.
Cabinet Minister Aman Arora said that apart from this, 4 female medical officers have also been appointed in the gynaecology branch in the Longowal community health center who were Dr. Prabhjot, Dr. Rachita, Dr. Astha and Dr. Princi.
He added that four medicine experts, Dr. Akhilesh Grover, Dr. Rahul Gupta, Dr. Kanwarpreet Kaur and Dr. Himanshu Garg, will also provide services to patients every Tuesday as per their duty schedule..
Giving more information in this regard, Civil Surgeon Sangrur Dr. Parminder Kaur said that the child specialist Dr. Sakshi and dental doctor Manyata have already been performing duties at at Longowal Community Health Center. She said that soon an X-ray machine will be installed in this health center along with which a radiologist will also be posted.
