Medi-chopper

Guwahati: Super-specialty health care centre Guwahati Neurological Research Centre (GNRC) on Tuesday unveiled plans to initiate air ambulance and medical outreach programme using helicopters to remote areas of North-east India. The service will regularly ferry doctors ) from GNRC to difficult-to-access locations across the region and provide doorstep medical support to the population across the North-eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. The announcement was made in Guwahati at a press conference organised to mark the completion of six months of GNRC’s North Guwahati campus – popularly known as GNRC Medical. “The hospital has received enormous response in the first six months of its operations and is presently receiving up to 200 out-patients every day,” said Dr Nomal Chandra Borah, CMD of GNRC Hospitals Ltd. (UNI)