Union budget 2022: Doctors demand PGI in Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh doctors have said that instead of focussing on the digital platform for medical in the union budget 2022, the government could have announced to set up Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI) in Madhya Pradesh.

After the union budget 2022 was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, now the Madhya Pradesh doctors are saying that instead of focussing more on the digital platform, the government could have announced setting up the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI) in the state.

In this digital era, the government is spending on technologies that will remove the requirements of a physical visit to doctors, carrying prescriptions and waiting in queues. The doctors opine that the digital experience can be fine but only when the doctors, facility, patients and systems work in sync with each other.

As per the Free Press Journal report, one of the doctors in the state faced a bad experience of dismal performance of digital platform during Covid-19 pandemic time and vaccination. Moreover, as per him, there is the need to open PGI and research work related to Covid and other diseases as the three institutes in the country in Rohtak, Lucknow, and Chandigarh.

The doctors had also appealed to PM Narendra Modi to develop Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC) like PGI Chandigarh. Citizen groups and civil rights have initiated a campaign to save BMHRC which was established in 2000 as a 350-bed super speciality hospital. The hospital had attracted the best doctors from all over.

The medical health care providers in the state are demanding to strengthen infrastructure in the health sector. As per them, after opening the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhopal, it would have been better if the government had announced opening another PGI.

As per doctors, after the whole country has faced the critical pandemic situation, it is high time to strengthen infrastructure in the health sector but nothing significant has been done in this direction and the budget must have focussed on the more concrete initiatives in this direction.

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