SHILLONG:
Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma, on August 23, inaugurated an MRI facility at Nazareth Hospital in Shillong.
The Nazareth Hospital and its entire employees were thanked by the chief minister during the opening ceremony for their contributions to the healthcare industry, particularly for those from the economically disadvantaged area.
“It’s a great service that Nazareth Hospital has been providing and I would want to put on record my sincere appreciation to Nazareth Hospital and I am sure that today having an MRI here that it will be a huge step towards providing proper diagnostic service and allowing people to have this kind of an MRI here in Shillong rather than having to travel to different locations,” he said.
The health and social sectors in the state, he added, have presented the state with some of its largest challenges.
“Health sector has been one of the more challenging areas that we had to work with because of numerous problems that we had but in the last five years we have been working from a very holistic point of view of looking at the entire health and making interventions at different sections so that we are able to improve the health sector in the state,” he added.
The Chief Minister continued by saying that the government’s strategy for the health sector goes beyond only offering health and wellness services and considers the entire life cycle of the industry. “We want to make sure that we need to monitor children and take action from the moment they are conceived until they reach early adulthood, the man stated. He claimed that interventions are crucial at every stage of life, not just when someone gets ill.”
The CMSDF provided Rs. 25 lakhs for the MRI machine, and the Chief Minister added another Rs. 25 lakhs. “The MRI facility here at Nazareth Hospital will greatly benefit the people especially those from the rural areas therefore I am happy to announce an additional assistance of Rs 25 lakhs so that the people of our State can derive the maximum benefits without having to travel to different places for an MRI,” he concluded.