Promising to accord top priority to health sector, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said his government would welcome setting up of advanced tertiary healthcare centres in Jammu and Kashmir, and urged renowned doctors hailing from the state to return and provide succour to the people.
“World-renowned doctors from the state, who are practising abroad, should return and provide succour to the people who have gone through very difficult times,” Sayeed said after inaugurating the four-day ‘Asian Consensus Meeting on Metabolic Surgery-2015’ at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) here.
Renowned surgeons from 30 countries including the US, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and Middle East countries will deliberate and evaluate the controversies in bariatric surgeries during the conference, organised by SKIMS, in collaboration with the Centre for Obesity and Diabetes Surgery (CODS), Mumbai.
Sayeed said the government would welcome setting up of advanced centres of tertiary healthcare so that people do not have to travel to other parts of the country for advanced medical treatment.
The Chief Minister said people from many western countries are increasingly visiting India for low-cost medical care. “Jammu and Kashmir is also suited for medical tourism given the advantages we have in reduced costs for treatment, latest technologies and growing compliance with international quality standards,” he said.
Sayeed said a very few places in the world will offer better destinations for post-operative care than Kashmir. “It is apt that our famous leisure destinations like Gulmarg and Pahalgam are popularly known as health resorts,” he added.
–PTI