GUWAHATI, July 3 � The GNRC on Tuesday unveiled a plan to initiate an air ambulance and medical outreach programme to remote areas of North-east India, using helicopters. The service will regularly ferry doctors from GNRC to difficult-to-access locations and provide doorstep medical support to the population across the North-eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.
The announcement was made here at a press conference organised to mark the completion of six months of GNRC�s North Guwahati campus � popularly known as GNRC Medical.
It needs to be mentioned here that the GNRC Medical was recently chosen by the World Bank Group (WBG), through its India Development Marketplace (IDM) initiative, to receive a grant of USD 1,50,000.
