Summary:
PGI has been negotiating for 51 acre land at Sarangpur for its satellite centre with the ministry of home affairs (MHA). The first satellite centre of PGI has already come up in Sangrur, where the screening OPD centre has been functional from a while. If the OPDs are shifted at the satellite centre, other services can be well managed," said a faculty member.Subsequently, the trauma and oncology centres will also come up. There is also a plan to establish a learning resource centre which will house a conventional centre for teaching purposes. Many meetings in the past between the PGI's director and UT administrator have taken place for the same.There is a satellite centre of PGI at Una in Himachal Pradesh and Sangrur in Punjab..