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November 29, 2019

(Important for Mains)

A government medical college to be established at Kapurthala
The union has given the approval for establishing a Government Medical College (GMC) at Kapurthala.
Besides, a local civil hospital would also be upgraded.
The GMC would be set up at a cost of rupees 325 crores.
The state would contribute around 40% of the amount for the project.
This GMC project would be first of its type in the Doaba region.
It would provide a boost to medical education as well as the quality infrastructure in the state.
At present, there are only three medical Colleges in Punjab namely at – Amritsar, Faridkot and Patiala.

(Source:-The Tribune news)

Topic: Health

Background: National TB control program has come up with a report, which has revealed some startling facts.

The report covers the time period from January to October (2019).
It has highlighted that around 49060 cases have been recorded in Punjab this year.

And from Ludhiana alone, 12,633 cases have been reported.

These districts have a huge migrants population, who are often the victims of this disease.
Better quality of health infrastructure, due to which the number of cases reported is more here.
Besides, TB is a notifiable disease. It means that both government and private hospitals will have to report the cases to the government.
Moreover, around 37000 cases of the total 49000 have come from government hospitals.

Over 700 cases of multidrug-resistant TB cases have also been found in the state.
TB is one of the biggest killers in the state’ s jails. ( As found by the forensic department of the Amritsar Medical College).
Over the oast two years, around 22 deaths were caused due to TB.
Also, the Health department had started the initiative of sending field workers to the TB patients houses.
It seeks to establish a personal correspondence between the patients and the health department.

(Source:- The Tribune news)

This has happened for the very first time since the Court was set up almost a century ago.
The total number of women Judges in the Punjab and Haryana High court has gone to 10.
The Chief Justice had administered the oath to six officers from Punjab and Haryana.
Justice Daya Chaudhary, who heads the division bench, was the first woman advocate to be administered oath as a Punjab and Haryana High court judge in 2007.
Although, the number of judges in the High Court has gone up to 56. But, the sanctioned strength is 85.
So, a huge pendency of cases exists due to this Understaffing of the High and lower levels of the judiciary.