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Launch of 7th Alternative Medical Unit

Chandigarh, 10th February, 2016: In an initiative of providing Medical Officers in all the villages of the city, the Department of Health in inter sectoral convergence with the Department of Rural Development has taken one more step of success ahead by launching 7th Alternative Medical Unit (AMU) in the city beautiful at Village Daria today. The dispensary was inaugurated by Sh. Vijay Dev, IAS Adviser to the Administrator in the presence of Sh. Anurag Agarwal, IAS, Health cum Home Secretary, Dr. V.K. Gagneja, Director-Health and other officers.
Appreciating the initiative Sh. Vijay Dev, IAS. Adviser to the Administrator said that presence of a qualified doctor in the village would prevent people from going to quacks which will further improve the health indicators of the city. Sh. Anurag Agarwal, IAS, Health cum Home Secretary assured that soon all the villages of the city will have a qualified doctor and Chandigarh will be the first city in India to achieve that status.
This is the seventh AMU centre in the city with the provision of a doctor, a pharmacist, ANM and a helper. The other six AMU centers are running in other villages and are yielding good results in providing health services to the people of villages at their doorsteps. This helps to decrease OPD load on major hospitals of the city as well. 


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