Haryana CM opens two 500-bed Covid centres
ROHTAK/KARNAL: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar inaugurated two 500bedded Covid centres — Guru Teg Bahadur Sanjeevani Hospital in Bal Jatan village near Indian Oil Corporation’s Panipat refinery and Chaudhary Devi Lal Sanjeevani Covid Hospital in Hisar — on Sunday
Set up in around 20 days at a cost of around ₹28 crore with the help of the DRDO and the PWD department, the hospital in Panipat will have around 325 staff members, including doctors, paramedics.
The hospital in Hisar was set up by the Haryana State Road and Bridge Development Corporation (HSRBDC) in 18 days at a cost of around ₹28.79 crore in the school building owned by the Jindal family. The hospital became functional two days before the May 18 deadline. The newly setup hospital will have 30 medical officers and MBBS interns, 43 pharmacists, 16 regular doctors, 27 staff nurses, 48 intern staff nurses. The hospital has been divided into four blocks and all the 500 beds are equipped with oxygen supply. The oxygen will be supplied from the Jindal steel unit.
Speaking at Panipat, the CM said, “The second wave has reached its peak five times faster than the first wave. With the setting up of two hospitals in Hisar and Panipat, the strength of hospital beds in the state has reached 19,500.”
On the black fungus disease, he said,”sixty cases have been reported in the state and four centres have been set up to treat the fungal disease one each in Hisar, Rohtak, Karnal and Gurugram.”
Haryana health minister Anil Vij said the state government was in touch with the Centre for increasing Haryana’s quota of oxygen supply. “We will require more oxygen to increase the strength of oxygen beds,” he said. Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan said 13,000MT of oxygen was being imported Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.