Pharmacy College to come up at Sajong

GANGTOK, January 22: The State Health and Family Welfare Department has identified the existing site of the Leprosy Hospital at Sajong in Rumtek for construction of a Pharmacy College.

An IPR release informs that the site measuring approximately 1.056 acres along with infrastructure had been utilized till 2003 as a leprosy hospital under the National Leprosy Eradication Programme.

However, with the State achieving the Government of India target of a prevalence of less that 1/10000 leprosy cases and the new guidelines from the Centre to do away with hospitals specifically meant only for leprosy patients the Hospital along with existing infrastructure was handed over to the parent department in 2003-04.

The establishment of the Pharmacy College at the proposed site, the release added would ensure optimal utilization of the land available.