Chandigarh, Feb. 25 -- In line with the directions issued by UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria to strengthen secondary healthcare centres, an evening outpatient department (OPD) has started at Government Multi Specialty Hospital, Sector 16, from 5 pm to 7 pm.

The facility offers services in medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, paediatrics and gynaecology. The initiative will later be extended to civil hospitals. During the trial run on the first day, i.e, Tuesday, 25 patients were attended to.

In 2015 too, GMSH-16 had started an evening OPD for two hours from 5pm to 7pm. The service was started to deal with the faculty crunch; and retired doctors of orthopaedics, gynaecology, surgery, medicines, etc. were hired for the same.

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