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Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has asked Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited to prepare a comprehensive plan to undertake extensive research to study the root cause of the deadly diseases and suggest measures for their effective eradication to make Punjab, a disease-free state. Presiding over a meeting with a delegation of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited led by its CEO-cum-managing director, Atul Sobti, Badal said government would extend cooperation in realising the company’s plan to provide free health care facilities to the people in the rural area. He asked them to set up a super speciality cancer hospital in the state besides pressing into service fully equipped mobile medical and health care vans to provide free treatment to the needy in the rural segment at their doorsteps.
Showing concern over the growing trend of drug addiction amongst the youth in the state, the chief minister said that the state government was seriously contemplating to take far more stringent action to check the trafficking of narcotics in the state . For this purpose, NGOs could be sensitised to play a pro-active role to bring awareness amongst the masses. He further asked the company to include this aspect in its health care perspective plan.
Managing director of Ranbaxy, Atul Sobti assured Badal that the company was fully committed to honour its commitment in health care sector but being a company with foreign direct investment, it had certain constraints over adopting any educational institution. He said that within a month, company would work out a detailed plan to provide free health care facilities in the rural areas. At present, two medical mobile vans had already been pressed into service in the villages of Mohali and Ropar districts. Sobti promised to provide free health care facilities in all the Adarsh schools by providing free medicines. Being one of the reputed and biggest companies in the world, Ranbaxy was committed to initiate better health care schemes in collaboration with the state government to provide free medical treatment. The company would also work out the modalities to establish a big hospital to cater the health care needs of rural sector, he added.
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