Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday advised young doctors at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) to ‘raise the bar of productivity’ and find ways to increase the OPD and OT outputs.
He was speaking during the institute’s 41st foundation day celebration.
“The high standards of health care and medical education set up by SGPGI are a matter of pride. It has created benchmarks in the use of medical robots and technologies like AI. But there is a need to raise the bar in terms of patient care… Efforts must be made to accommodate more patients in the OPD and undertake more surgeries,” Yogi said.
Lauding SGPGI’s journey so far, he said: “The pace with which the institute has grown is remarkable, but the next five years are going to be extremely crucial as many new projects started would land in the delivery phase. Working in mission mode is the key.”
In 2024 alone, SGPGI registered 1,16,000 patients, treated 48,600 of them and conducted over 14,000 surgeries. The institute successfully completed 114 kidney, 32 bone marrow and one liver transplants and also conducted 591 open-heart and 319 robotic surgeries.
The CM lauded SGPGI for showing the way to institutes across the country by becoming the first to attract a CSR fund of Rs 500 crore.
“These funds are being used to support initiatives like the Saloni Heart Foundation, which provides life-saving cardiac surgeries for children. Additionally, a shelter home (rain basera) is being constructed with CSR support,” he said adding that: “Every patient seeks quality care, and to meet this demand, doctors need to triple their efforts. The govt will ensure all necessary resources are provided.”
Reflecting on the challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic, he said at the time, 36 districts in Uttar Pradesh lacked ICU beds. On the director’s suggestion, the Tele-ICU facility was introduced, saving thousands of lives. He added that six medical colleges have already been integrated into the Tele-ICU system in the first phase, and efforts are underway to connect all medical colleges in the state to this facility.
Taking pride in UP becoming a home to 65 medical colleges, Yogi said efforts are on to extend quality patient care services free of cost to the needy through the Ayushman Bharat scheme and its state counterpart.
Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak, minister of state for health Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh, principal secretary health and medical education Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma, SGPGI director Dr RK Dhiman also spoke on the occasion.
Veteran teacher Prof Gitanjali Batmanabane said young doctors must curtail their screen time and divert the same to chase new frontiers in their areas of medical education and clinical practice.
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