Outbreaks in future have to be contained quickly.Ĭhandigarh is the country’s best planned city, yet it saw widespread Covid-19 infections. We need to strengthen it to understand the epidemiology of diseases.
The importance of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme has increased manifold. We need to rethink the model of healthcare delivery through aggressive preventive medical care. Priority areas of the government health sector in Chandigarh? But, I feel that the public health sector cannot provide top-class living facilities that few patients want. Though there are issues regarding availability of land and viability of that industry, it has to be looked at. Yes, we need a parallel private healthcare system.
Unlike Mohali and Panchkula, Chandigarh does not have private healthcare providers of repute? Is that required? This will help in the treatment of dengue and Covid-19. We will have to set up a system to study the patterns of disease and work out how our education and information systems have to be developed for intervention. We have a huge burden of diabetes in the city. We have improved, but new challenges have emerged in non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. What changes in disease patterns and patient loads have you seen as health administrator?Įarlier the burden of waterborne diseases was huge. We keep hearing about novel procedures being conducted in UT run hospitals. This in turn helps set a benchmark for keeping up patient care standards.
GMSH PARALLEL UPGRADE
You have to upgrade it on a timely basis. Upgrading the health sector will always remain a challenge as new technology comes up every day. How have GMSH-16 and GMCH-32 kept pace with new standards in patient care? PGIMER is a top-tertiary care hospital with huge responsibility, infrastructure, and workforce. It’s felt in the medical fraternity that while the three UT run hospitals are underutilised, PGIMER is overloaded. Other healthcare facilities have been upgraded too. The General Hospital in Sector 16 has been upgraded to a multispecialty unit (GMSH). Earlier, there was less influx of patients as well as the population from the adjoining states in the UT. The Government Medical College (GMCH) came into existence in the late ’90s. Thus, there’s need for creating more public health infrastructure as well as services.
When I joined services in Chandigarh the population was around 3.5 lakh. How has the health infrastructure in Chandigarh evolved since you joined as a medical officer in 1985? I’ve actually done this in Maxima to solve some heat equations on simple geometries like the one described here, with as few as 5-20 basis functions and gotten good results.Dr G Dewan, director, health and family welfare, who retires next week after 35 years of service, spoke to Amanjeet Singh Salyal on Saturday about the challenges thrown up by the Covid-19 outbreak, non-communicable diseases in the city, and his career with the UT health department. The advantage of the RBF approach is that you don’t need a mesh, and typically you get exponential convergence with respect to the number of basis functions, also it works without a regular geometry as compared to some spectral methods which work much better for say periodic boundary conditions on simple regions of space. In the FEM method low order polynomials on patches of space knitted together are the family of functions, and either collocation at nodes, or some kind of gaussian quadrature weak form is used to get the equations to solve. In the RBF expansion the RBF expansions are the family of functions, and typically the colocation method is used at a set of points. The essence of solving PDEs in general is to create some family of functions that are general purpose approximators, and then to either evaluate some integral/weak form of the equations, or set the equations to be exact at some set of points (colocation methods).
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