01-31-2006, 05:04 AM
http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/06jan30/news.htm#6
<b>A multi crore Cancer Hospital near Katra</b>
While top Shrine Board officials are busy in identifying location for the multi-crore project, the sources pointed out that the Board was interested in having the prestigious project near Katra, the headquarters of the Board and base camp of widely revered Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine. Accordingly, the land is being identified between Domel and Katra.
To acquaint himself with infrastructure required for the hospital, which would be first of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir and only second in North India, Lt Gen Sinha is scheduled to meet top cancer specialist Dr Ashok Vaid, who incidentally hailed from Jammu and is posted in Rajiv Gandhi Institute, at New Delhi on February 10, the sources said.
The Board proposed to post top cancer experts in the hospital from different parts of the country for treating the patients of deadly disease not only from Jammu and Kashmir but from other parts of Northern India as facilities for the disease are very rare in Medical Colleges and other Institutes in J&K, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
<b>The Shrine Board, which came into effect in 1986 after the then Governor Jagmohan had taken over the holy shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi throwing out the notorious baridars, a decision widely welcomed in the country, had already undertaken a series of development works at the Bhawan, 13-km track and Katra.</b>
It was only due to the Boardâs development works that pilgrimage to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine had gone up from 13 lakh in 1986 to 62 lakh in 2005.
<b>A multi crore Cancer Hospital near Katra</b>
While top Shrine Board officials are busy in identifying location for the multi-crore project, the sources pointed out that the Board was interested in having the prestigious project near Katra, the headquarters of the Board and base camp of widely revered Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine. Accordingly, the land is being identified between Domel and Katra.
To acquaint himself with infrastructure required for the hospital, which would be first of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir and only second in North India, Lt Gen Sinha is scheduled to meet top cancer specialist Dr Ashok Vaid, who incidentally hailed from Jammu and is posted in Rajiv Gandhi Institute, at New Delhi on February 10, the sources said.
The Board proposed to post top cancer experts in the hospital from different parts of the country for treating the patients of deadly disease not only from Jammu and Kashmir but from other parts of Northern India as facilities for the disease are very rare in Medical Colleges and other Institutes in J&K, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
<b>The Shrine Board, which came into effect in 1986 after the then Governor Jagmohan had taken over the holy shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi throwing out the notorious baridars, a decision widely welcomed in the country, had already undertaken a series of development works at the Bhawan, 13-km track and Katra.</b>
It was only due to the Boardâs development works that pilgrimage to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine had gone up from 13 lakh in 1986 to 62 lakh in 2005.