GMC Baramulla gets first Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre

Baramulla: The Jammu and Kashmir administration recently established a state-of-the-art Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) Centre and gymnasium at the Government Medical College (GMC) Baramulla in North Kashmir. 

This is the first such centre in North Kashmir. The centre caters to the specific needs of post-trauma, post-stroke, orthopaedic, and congenital orthopaedic patients with a focus on their rehabilitation and recovery.

The centre is fitted with advanced equipment and offers specialised care to facilitate the healing process and enhance the quality of life for patients. Around 10 machines worth crores of rupees had been purchased by the hospital authorities to empower the MRP centre.

The establishment of this centre will be a huge relief for the patients who, in the absence of such a facility, had to visit private centres in Srinagar and other parts of the Kashmir valley.

The patients and their relatives lauded this step taken by the Jammu and Kashmir administrations, as these types of modern medical facilities have been provided at their doorsteps. The other facilities, like dialysis centres, are also helping patients in the district.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that setting a new milestone by opening eye-bank facilities and a corneal transplant centre, the Command Hospital of the Army has helped two elderly persons to regain vision in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district, a Defence spokesperson said. He said the eyes donated by a deceased person in Katra were retrieved by the Eye Bank of the Command Hospital (Northern Command) and transplanted to give vision to two visually-disabled people.