Chandigarh, June 10 -- After receiving a positive response from the evening outpatient department (OPD) services at the Government Multi Specialty Hospital, Sector 16, the health department is planning to start it at the civil hospital in Manimajra as well.

The two-hour OPD, from 5 pm to 7 pm, was launched at GMSH-16 in February this year after Punjab governor and UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria directed officials to ensure optimum utilisation of secondary care and provide the services of specialist doctors to patients.

Director of health services Dr Suman Singh said, "The outcome of the evening OPD at GMSH-16 has been positive. On average, over 100 patients visit the evening OPD daily."

The evening OPD offers medicine, surgery, o...