Tarun Karthick
Sri Vijaya Puram, 20 May 2025
Hindu Rashtra Shakti (HRS) has submitted a memorandum to the Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, urging instant motion to nominate a full-time neurosurgeon at GB Pant Hospital, Sri Vijaya Puram. The hospital, the one tertiary authorities healthcare facility within the islands, presently lacks specialised neurosurgical providers—placing lives in danger and putting a big monetary burden on sufferers and households.
In the letter, HRS State President Rakeshwar Lall highlighted the pressing want for neurosurgical look after sufferers affected by advanced neurological and neuroendocrine situations resembling traumatic mind and spinal accidents, Parkinson’s illness, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). The absence of specialist care forces islanders to hunt remedy on the mainland, typically incurring remedy prices exceeding ₹20 lakhs, together with delays that may severely influence well being outcomes.
The memorandum outlines three main considerations:
– Lack of Specialist Care: GB Pant Hospital presently doesn’t have the capability to handle superior neurological or neuroendocrine situations. Emergency circumstances resembling strokes or traumatic mind accidents face vital delays because of the want for mainland referrals.
– Financial and Emotional Strain: Patients requiring long-term remedy or repeated diagnostics for situations like NETs are compelled to journey continuously to mainland cities, which is financially and emotionally unsustainable for many island households.
– Infrastructure Readiness: HRS emphasised that the hospital’s current emergency and orthopaedic infrastructure might be expanded to combine neurosurgical providers with comparatively minimal funding.
To deal with the difficulty, HRS has proposed the next measures:
-Appointment of a everlasting, full-time neurosurgeon at GB Pant Hospital.
-Establishment of telemedicine partnerships with premier establishments like AIIMS for specialist consultations and workers coaching.
-Upgradation of diagnostic capabilities, together with superior MRI and CT imaging, to cut back dependency on mainland referrals.
Lall acknowledged that such steps would align with the goals of the National Health Mission and considerably enhance outcomes for weak populations affected by uncommon or power neurological problems.
