Thursday, 23 September 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Meets union minister Mandavia in New Delhi
The health minister of Uttarakhand Dhan Singh Rawat called upon the union health and family welfare minister, Mansukh Mandavia in New Delhi on Wednesday. In the meeting Rawat requested that an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) should be opened in the Kumaon region of the state. He said that the people of Kumaon division have been demanding a super speciality centre in their area for quite some time and the demand can be fulfilled by opening an AIIMS in the region.
Rawat told the Union minister that the state health department has made necessary preparations to tackle the probable third wave of the pandemic of Covid-19. He said that work on setting up four new medical colleges and upgradation of health centres is going on in the state. Rawat told Mandavia that one crore vaccine doses have been administered in the state and the target to completely vaccinate the entire 18 plus population would be achieved in the month of December.
Rawat was accompanied by the health secretary Amit Singh Negi and the Principal of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) Dr Ashutosh Sayana in the meeting with the minister.
