Patiala admn ropes in army to tackle crisis
PATIALA: Amid the rising Covid caseload, the Patiala administration has roped in services of 30 army personnel, who will assist the paramedics in taking care of patients at Rajindra Hospital, Patiala deputy commissioner Kumar Amit said on Monday.
He said the hospital is working as a tertiary care centre for the treatment of Covid patients and caters to arrivals from not only Punjab, but NCR too. The deaths being attributed to Patiala district included patients from other districts and NCR too, he added. He said being the L-3 facility, this hospital receives the patients in severe condition and despite the best medical treatment given to them, severity of the disease hampers their efforts.
Dr Vishal Chopra and Dr
Amandeep Singh Bakhshi, while handing over PPE kits to the armymen, briefed them the essential points for serving the patients.
Western Command offers help to revive oxygen plants in state
Responding to chief minister Amarinder Singh’s plea for help in the Covid situation, the Western Command of the army on Monday extended help, including medical staff and medically trained combatants, to Punjab to meet the exigent shortage in hospitals, along with support in reviving the state’s old oxygen plants currently lying defunct.
Lt Gen RP Singh, GOC-in-C, Western Command, at a virtual meeting of the CM with command officials, also offered to provide staff to run the 100-bed Covid proposed facility be set up in the building loaned to the state by CSIR for the purpose.