Tanda hospital to have WHO centre
Our Correspondent
Kangra, April 14
A WHO collaborating centre at the Dr Rajindra Prasad Government Medical College (DRPGMC) in Tanda was today finalised during a meeting with a representative of World Health Organisation (WHO), South-East Asia Region.
A vision document will be prepared and submitted to WHO within a month. Besides, WHO gave its nod to start a translating centre of the WHO publications in vernacular languages at the DRPGMC. Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Vineet Chaudary said it was a matter of pride for the state that WHO had agreed for this. He said they would receive a lot of funding and research works would be channelised and the orientation of the Tanda medical college would be global.
He said medical professionals initially from the DRPGMC and subsequently from other medical colleges of the country would work to generate ‘Evidence for Policy Change’ with a focus on health problems in tribal as well as inaccessible areas in the South-East Asia Region.
A two-day meeting, which concluded at DRPGMC, was presided over by Charles Raby, a WHO representative for the South-East Asia Region.
Vineet Choudary said research-oriented faculty at Tanda would now collaborate with other researchers throughout India and neighboring countries in South East Asia. They would collate the available health data and then generate evidence out of it which would be shared with policy-makers to plan effective health care for tribal and inaccessible populations in the South-East Asia Region.
The meeting was attended by faculty members, including Principal Anil Chauhan, who thanked the Additional Chief Secretary and WHO for initiating the process.
