Name Bathinda AIIMS after Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji, says Harsimrat K Badal
Chandigarh, August 23: Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday meets Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and requested to name the prestigious AIIMS, Bathinda Institute in honour of ‘Hind ki Chadar’ Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji.
Bathinda MP, who met Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on this issue in Delhi, stated that the AIIMS Health care facility should be named after Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji.
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By naming after Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur JI, it would be befitting tribute to the ninth Guru who sacrificed his life so that the candle of religious freedom could remain aflame in our sacred land for all times to come.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal also said, “Guru Ji’s commitment to the cause of protecting the liberty of all people of the country is unparalleled. The supreme sacrifice of the Guru was a turning point in the history of the country and paved the way for formation of our great nation which respects all religions equally.”
Harsimrat Badal also pointed out that a grateful nation was celebrating the 400th birth anniversary of the great Guru and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had led the country in paying glowing tributes to Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur ji as well as remembering his supreme sacrifice.
“Keeping this in view I am of the firm opinion that naming the premier Institute in honour of the great Guru would be most fitting”, she added.
Meanwhile the MP also urged the health minister to address the grievance of lab technicians running stand-alone medical laboratories in the country.
She said that the latest rules governing laboratory technicians had been changed recognising only three categories of medical laboratories run by MBBS/MD, Phd and Msc passouts.
She said in Punjab only one thousand laboratories were being run by such professionals whereas an additional 9,000 laboratories were being run by professionals having Bsc and DMLT degrees.
Handing over a memorandum in this regard on behalf of the Joint Association of Independent Medical Laboratory and Allied Professionals, Mrs Badal said the Association did not have any objection if all existing medical laboratories possessing pollution authorization up till 2022 were recognised and urged the minister to consider the same sympathetically.
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Meanwhile, Mansukh Mandaviya assured Harsimrat Badal that all 6,000 medical laboratory technicians would continue to be recognised as per the old policy.
-PTC News
