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It was a nostalgic walk down memory lane for the retired doctors of Ooty GH, who were the special invitees at the sesquicentennial celebration of the hospital on Saturday. “Only then the CM came to know that Ooty GH lacked the scanning facility. The doctors, most being natives of Ooty , were the lifeline of the hospital. I took hold of that opportunity to get CT scan and MRI scan machines for the hospital and also four more CT scan machines for the four taluk government hospitals in the Nilgiris,” he said.The government headquarters hospital is the only major hospital in the district. They recalled interesting stories about the facility and their service days.Recalling a period where the Ooty GH lacked a generator, Dr NJ Rajan, an ENT specialist — who has conducted over 20,000 surgeries — said, “In those days, there were no CT scan or MRI scan facilities..