No dearth of fund for RIMS : Official

Mail News Service Imphal, Mar 15: Fund shall not be standing in the way of upgrading Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal to the status of an all India institute. This was stated by Mr Debasish Panda, Joint Secretary (NE), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare while interacting with the Director Prof S. Sekharjit, heads […]

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Imphal, Mar 15: Fund shall not be standing in the way of upgrading Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal to the status of an all India institute. This was stated by Mr Debasish Panda, Joint Secretary (NE), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare while interacting with the Director Prof S. Sekharjit, heads of departments and representatives of the important committees and the Principal n charge of College of Nursing Dr N. Damayanti.
He reminded those who had assembled there that with the fund already sanctioned construction works of hostels, drainage system, out patient department had been started.
Fund will be sanctioned for the second phase of expansion which will include the construction of the Administrative block, hospital buildings, hostels, residential quarters and power supply.
He also underlined the need to evict the encroachers from the RIMS campus and construct a boundary wall.
Mr Panda made a two day visit to RIMS to see for himself the conditions prevailing here and monitor the progress of the ongoing construction works.
Most of the heads of departments had ventilated their grievances caused by understaff, old or absence of equipments, old and insufficient buildings, clogged toilets, crippling power and water supply facilities.
After hearing those viewpoints Mr Panda suggested to the Director to make necessary representations. Having a positive frame of mind he pleased the heads of departments by outrightly agreeing to some important suggestions.
He asked the Director to make a master plan with the assurance that money will not be wanting.

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