Government to fix Covid treatment charges at Amritsar private hospitals, says minister Soni
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, June 20
Medical Education and Research Minister OP Soni on Saturday said the government had decided to fix the rates of coronavirus treatment in private hospitals for the convenience of patients.
After a meeting with senior officials including Deputy Commissioner Shivdular Singh Dhillon, Commissioner of Police Sukhchain Singh Gill, Commissioner Municipal Corporation Komal Mittal and others, the minister said the state government hospitals had all the medicines, facilities and staff for the treatment of Covid-19 patients, but even then if one wants to seek treatment in a private hospital, it is required the charges are reasonable.
Soni said the state had three Covid-19 testing centres at three medical colleges with a capacity to test 3,000 samples per day per centre. The state government to set up four new laboratories with each having a capacity to run 1,000 tests daily in the next 15 days, he said.
He said state-of-the-art machines were available in the government hospitals and all the medicines and food were being provided free of cost to the patients.
Talking about the increase in cases, especially in Amritsar, the minister said the cases increased partly due to an increase in testing and lockdown relaxations.
Mission Fateh: Police teams visit door-to-door
Contributing towards Mission Fateh launched by the state government to involve each person in the fight against coronavirus by spreading awareness, teams of the local police on Saturday visited door-to-door, distributed pamphlets and urged people to maintain social distance, wear face masks and proper hand sanitisation.
Police Commissioner Dr Sukhchain Singh Gill launching the campaign on Saturday distributed badges to officials, jawans and volunteers in this regard. Speaking on the occasion, he said if we have to fight Covid-19 pandemic and come over this unprecedented health crisis, we have to take help of each and every resident and ensure implementation of government guidelines.
The cops and volunteers associated with the Punjab Police took a pledge to ensure implementation of government guidelines over wearing masks, hand washing and social distancing.
Jagmohan Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police, asked the officials and volunteers to download COVA mobile app and join Mission Fateh in order to become ‘Mission warriors’.
Following this, police teams of 22 police stations visited door-to door and stopped the people at nakas and urged them to join their hands in the fight against pandemic. They distributed posters, pamphlets and appealed the people for downloading COVA app.
