Other hospitals in Chandigarh function as usual

While services at the PGI were affected due to the ongoing strike by contractual employees and resident doctors, other government hospitals across the city continued patient-care facilities as usual today.

The functioning at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32 (including the South Campus at Sector 48); Government Multi-Speciality Hospital, Sector 16; and Mani Majra Civil Hospital remained majorly unaffected. These three medical facilities cater to a large number of patients from the tricity areas.

“The patient turnout at the PGI is completely different in comparison to other government hospitals of the city. We majorly cater to patients from the tricity and see a major workload during the OPD timings. The strike at the PGI has no effect on other hospitals, so far,” said a senior faculty member of the Sector 32 hospital. Hospitals across Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh have been asked not to refer patients to PGI.