Mahant lays stress on better medical facilities

GORAKHNATH TEMPLE head priest Mahant Avaidyanath stressed the need for better medical facilities in the region. He said since poor people of eastern UP could not afford costly treatment in metropolitan cities, it was necessary to hold health melas in backward and remote areas.

GORAKHNATH TEMPLE head priest Mahant Avaidyanath stressed the need for better medical facilities in the region.

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He said since poor people of eastern UP could not afford costly treatment in metropolitan cities, it was necessary to hold health melas in backward and remote areas.

Avaidayanath was expressing his views after inaugurating a free health mela at Guru Gorakshanath Hospital on Sunday. He called upon physicians to serve humanity, especially the poor.

He said all medical facilities in the camp would be free of cost. Focusing on the objective of the camp, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath said it was part of a government scheme and the mela was organised in collaboration with the government at six places, including Gorakhpur.

Chief medical officer Dr Mahendra Nath Yadav said that government was determined to provide affordable health facilities to people and claimed that the health system in the State had been revamped.

Former Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University vice-chancellor Prof Radhemohan Mishra said a programme for education and free education and free health service in rural areas should be launched.

Huge rush was witnessed at the camp where 11 counters were set up for registration of patients.