Chandigarh: The Western Command of the Army is setting up COVID-19 hospitals in Haryana and Punjab which can accommodate 100 gentle to reasonable symptomatic sufferers, a defence assertion mentioned on Saturday (May 8).
The hospitals, being set up in Chandigarh, Patiala and Faridabad, are doubtless to be inaugurated and thrown open for the civil inhabitants on May 10, the assertion mentioned in accordance to information company PTI.
Lieutenant General R P Singh, Army Commander, Western Command, mentioned the command is setting up army COVID discipline hospitals and offering technical and different help to paramedics to revive disused oxygen crops in Punjab.
The officer assured all doable help throughout the institutional capability of the Western Command to assist handle the COVID-19 disaster, the assertion mentioned.
The Western Command has its footprints in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Chandigarh and Delhi.
The Command has contributed 108 medical doctors, 14 nursing officers and 205 paramedics in numerous hospitals set up by the DRDO in the area, the assertion mentioned
Presently, 33 paramedics are deployed at Government Rajendra Hospital in Patiala, SVBP Hospital in Delhi and one other 100 paramedics are to be deployed shortly at numerous areas, it mentioned.
To tide over the scarcity of oxygen in the area, a devoted workforce of Army Electronics and Mechanical Engineers is working around the clock to resuscitate the oxygen plant below the Bhakra Beas Management at Nangal in Himachal Pradesh, the assertion mentioned.
Lieutenant General R P Singh has assured the administrations of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and Jammu and Kashmir of full help of the Army in these testing instances, it mentioned.
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