Morung Express News
Dimapur | November 24
Former Chief Secretary, Lalhuma IAS (Retd) has underscored the importance of exhibiting love and compassion towards patients by those in the healthcare profession especially hospitals.
Speaking as chief guest at the 9th Thanksgiving Day programme at Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (CIHSR), Dimapur on Thursday, Lalhuma urged upon the staff to accompany love and compassion with prayers since faith is an important part of the healing process.
Lalhuma, whom the CIHSR management said was one of the key persons in establishing the hospital, appreciated the political will of the state government of the time for running the institute on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. He said CIHSR was of the fastest growing hospitals on PPP mode and lauded the management for achieving on many fronts during the last nine years.
Delivering a report, Director CIHSR, Dr. Sedevi Angami informed that during the current year, there was a total of 17,200 patients from the state while another 13,115 patients came from neighbouring Assam.
He also revealed that 4117 surgeries have been performed at the hospital in 2016 while 305 maternity deliveries were done. The hospital is manned by a total of 467 staff, he added.
During the programme, the management felicitated their staffs who have completed five years of service to the hospital.
