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A new physiotherapy college to come up near Chandigarh

CHANDIGARH: A physiotherapy college will be set up at Saket Hospital in suburban Chandimandir and Panchkula near here for which a No Objection Certificate has already been issued to the Haryana Saket Council by the Haryana Government.

This was decided at a meeting of the Haryana Saket Council in the Haryana Raj Bhavan here on Tuesday. Council President and Haryana Governor A. R. Kidwai and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda jointly announced that the College would start functioning from the current academic year 2008-09.

The course of Bachelor in Physiotherapy would be taken up from this session and the rest of the courses such as Bachelor in Prosthetics and Orthotics, Bachelor in Occupational Therapy and Post-Graduate Degree courses in these subjects would be started in due course.This college would be affiliated to the newly-created Medical University in Rohtak.

Dr. Kidwai said this Physiotherapy College would meet the requirements of physiotherapy treatment of the patients after the surgical operations. It would generate adequate employment avenues for the youth of the State, he added.He appreciated that the Saket Hospital in Chandimandir and Panchkula had earned a name in orthopaedics and rehabilitation services and a large number of people from Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, U.P. and Uttarakhand were availing of these services. Mr. Hooda, who is also the Vice-President-cum-Chairman of the Council, assured that all the essential infrastructural and financial assistance would be extended by the State Government to the Council for running the proposed college.

It was also decided that the Haryana Welfare Society for Hearing and Speech Disability and the Saket Council for Physically Disabled would work jointly as sister organisations under one umbrella in the newly approved name of the Council as the Haryana Saket Council for Physically Disabled.

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