By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh
26th November:- Punjab Chief Minister Parkash
Singh Badal today asked the Health Department to tie up with the World Class
Autism Centre for providing the best treatment facilities to the patients
inflicted with Autism here at the upcoming Advanced Autism and Research Care
Centre, first of its kind not within the country but across the globe.
Addressing gathering here
after laying the foundation stone of Advanced Autism and Research Care Centre
here in Sector 79 at the cost of Rs.16 crore, the Chief Minister said that he
was extremely pained to know about the trauma and hardships faced by the
children suffering from Autism and especially their parents for their
upbringing right from their birth, from a doctor in his medical team whose
child was also suffering from Autism since birth. Parkash Singh Badal said that
his doctor’s ordeal in nurturing his Autistic child inspired him to do
something tangible for the welfare of such children and this Advanced Centre
was a positive step in that direction.
Parkash Singh Badal asked
both the Advisor and Principal Secretary Health to work out modalities to ink
an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with some world acclaimed Autism institute
to bring the best faculty and staff to provide the best treatment facilities to
the children inflicted with Autism and training to their parents to handle them
with utmost care and patience.
Listing the major
initiatives of SAD-BJP government in the healthcare sector, the Chief Minister
said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of the
upcoming All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) over an area of 200
acre at a cost of Rs.926 crore at Bathinda. Likewise, Homi Bhabha Cancer Care
& Research Institute in collaboration with Tata Memorial Centre was coming
up at New Chandigarh at a cost of Rs.480 crore. Punjab was the first state to
launch Chief Minister Cashless Cancer Care Scheme besides upgrading
infrastructure its medical colleges at Patiala, Faridkot and Amritsar besides
setting up a 100 bedded Advanced Cancer Institute at Bathinda for providing
best treatment to the patients suffering from cancer. Recently, the state
government has taken a major initiative to provide free treatment to the
patients suffering from Hepatitis-C.
Earlier, Dr. Gurpreet
Singh member from Chief Minister’s Medical Team gave a brief account of Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and said that the parents of these differently abled
children should motivate them to excel in their fields of interests like music,
dance, painting, sports etc. He thanked the Chief Minister for this unique
initiative and hoped this centre would go a long way in mitigating the
sufferings of children inflicted with Autism and their parents.
Talking to the media
persons on the sidelines of the function, the Chief Minister reacted sharply to
the irresponsible utterances of the MLAs who left the SAD-BJP alliance
government and joined Congress, saying such turncoats follow a pro-party line
while they were a part of the alliance and moment they are out they start
criticizing us because their sole motive was to secure ticket from any party by
hook or crook to pursue their vested interests.
Asked to comment on Kejriwal’s
statement to give the post of Deputy Chief Minister to a Dalit, the Chief
Minister said that how merely a post of Deputy Chief Minister will help to
transform the destiny of under privileged sections of the society when you are
not sincere towards them from the core of your heart. He said it was on record
that SAD-BJP launched many pro-poor schemes like Atta-Dal, Shagun, Bhagat Puran
Singh Sehat Bima Yojana and several others to improve their economic lot
without any political motive.