Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

Disability Awareness cum Assessment & Aids and Appliances camp organised by District Disability Rehabilitation Centre, Social Justice Empowerment & Welfare Department in collaboration with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. HRDD and Govt. Doctors & Specialist, Govt. of Sikkim. The assessment camps were successfully completed at following places are as under: Rangpo PHC, East on 17th March, Khamdong PHSC, East on 19th March, Soreng PHC, West on 21st March and Yuksam PHC, West on 22nd Mar ch 2016. The camps were attended by different school going students as well as those children with disability problems. Those individuals with disability and as per their requirement the aids & appliances along with Disability Identity card was also distributed. • Assessment camps for South and North district will be held on the following dates & venues: 24th march at Mangley PHC, South Sikkim,   • 26th March at Melli PHC, South Sikkim and   • 28th March 2016 at Mangan Dist...

Charles Alfred Bell (Pic: Wikipedia) The Archives Section under the Culture and Heritage Department at Gangtok stores the rarest of documents related to Sikkim. I shall always remain grateful for an opportunity granted to me to flip over pages of that epoch which is more of a dream come true. Over the last few years I have spent most of my time learning and understanding Sikkim, and it gives me pleasure to share what I know or what I listen to. I am more of a storyteller, those stories that got lost along the helm of time. This time around let me take you back to the year 1917, and the date reads 10 th of March. An official letter arrives at his Palace to His Highness Maharaja Tashi Namgyal of Sikkim. The letter inquires about naming the new Civil Hospital at Gangtok, which was ready for public use very shortly. CA Bell, Superintendent of Sikkim State, the writer of the letter writes that it occurred to him and a Civil Surgeon whether the hospital could be named in memory...

Pic: Internet I have always tried my best to be among the first few lines while visiting a doctor in a hospital. But on many occasions, I don’t have any option but to be in a long-standing queue.   It is an exciting finding that I read in the old Kanchenjunga magazine, dated 1966, of Gangtok Government Hospital about the wait in lines.  Some six decades back, hospitals had no wait lines as we see today.   People from far places in Sikkim used to drop by Gangtok Government Hospital at any hour of the day and make haywire for the doctors and the hospital staff. In July and August of 1966, a new rule was brought into practice by the Royal Durbar to set up proper wait-in lines for the visiting patients at the hospital for medical check-ups.   It was also established that personal records of patients' illness should be kept in the hospital.   It was also directed to the Hospital authorities that Prince Tenzing and his brother would regularly inspect the ne...

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