Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 31: The 166 Military Hospital (MH), Satwari, is celebrating the Army Medical Corps historic 250th Raising Day, today.
On this occasion, Brigadier Man Mohan Harjai, Commandant warmly greeted all ranks and civilian employees of the hospital and exhorted them to work with renewed vigour and commitment to provide even better healthcare and help to all the needy patients living up to the hospital motto “care with compassion”.
The 166 MH was raised in July 1970 with all specialized and diagnostic services under one roof. Keeping pace with rapid technological advances, the hospital has been leaving no stone unturned in providing latest specialized and superspecialised services and looks for new challenges, it also caters for the medicine and OPD requirements of Veterans and their dependants of the area.
The Commandant also said that “this hospital attends to all sick and wounded on the battlefield and provides specialized and superspecialised treatment facilities to soldiers, families and Veterans during peace time. A project for establishing a Dialysis Unit for advanced renal disease and Cardiac Cath Lab as part of ICCU (Intensive Cardiac Care Unit) has also been taken up for this hospital and will see the light of day very shortly in near future”.
Brig TK Saha of White Knight Corps speaking on the occasion said that “Army Medical Corps was the very first service in the Armed Forces to receive the coveted President’s colours. He reminded everyone that the men of this Corps are serving the nation in dual role as soldiers as well as health givers. They have risen to the occasion every time whenever our country has needed them; whether in war or in peace or as part of disaster management as recently as in Uttarakhand”.
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