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CM Mann to open Punjab’s first liver sciences institute in Mohali
The institute, which has been established at par with the Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi, has been running out-patient department services for the last eight months
Chief minister Bhagwant Mann will dedicate the state’s first Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, which has been set up in Mohali, on Thursday.
The government had made an announcement in this regard in the 2022 Budget Session. The Institute, which has been built in Phase 3B-1, has been equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure, which will help provide super-speciality care, training and conduct hepatology research. The institute that was built at a cost of ₹40 crore will have a staff of around 450 people, including 80 doctors, 150 staff nurses and 200 Group-D employees. The government has appointed former Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) hepatology department head Dr Virendra Singh as the director of the institute.
Speaking about the facility, Punjab health and family welfare minister Dr Balbir Singh said Punjab will be the second state in the country after New Delhi to have an institute exclusively catering to those suffering from liver and biliary diseases.
The institute, which has been established at par with the Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi, has been running out-patient department services for the last eight months. Soon, the institute will commence indoor, intensive care and emergency services. Patients suffering from liver diseases such as acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver cancer, alcoholic liver disease, ascites and pancreatic diseases and disorders of the gallbladder and biliary diseases can avail treatment from this institute.
“The institute will also start telemedicine services at all government hospitals in Punjab,” the minister said, adding that a liver transplant facility is also expected to start at the institute soon.
