The Leh Army Hospital ICU being inaugurated. Tribune photo

Tribune News Service

Jammu, August 23

The Army today inaugurated the accident and emergency department and the ICU with modern equipment at the Army General Hospital in Leh.The PRO, Defence, Srinagar, said Army’s General Hospital in Leh had been providing quality medical and combat care to soldiers who safeguard frontiers in challenging environs since 1960.He said the hospital had treated operational casualties, mass casualty or civil disasters like the Leh cloud burst, offering the best medical care to the troops, families and civil populace, living up to its reputation of the “highest multispecialty hospital of the world”.A need was felt to augment the critical care services, hence the plan to modernise the intensive care unit (ICU) and accident and emergency department was conceptualised and conceived by the Fire & Fury Corps Commander Lt Gen PJS Pannu, he added.