Chandigarh administration gives a call for setting up mini-Covid care centres

Chandigarh, January 8

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With the Covid infection spreading at an alarming speed, the UT Administration has given a clarion call to organisations and associations for setting up mini Covid care centres voluntarily in the city, as it is expected that the number of infected persons may be many times what was witnessed during the second wave peak in April/May last year.

Any individual, association, voluntary organisation, NGO, religious organisation, corporate, firm or Trust may come forward for setting up a mini Covid care centre for asymptomatic patients. Stay, food, medicines and every other facility in such centres will be free.

Yashpal Garg, nodal officer, mini Covid care centres, said permission was granted to Sri Sathya Sai Gramin Jagriti to set up and operate a centre at Police Hospital, Sector 26, initially for a period of two months. In May/June 2021, the organisation had successfully operated a centre at Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 8-B.

Garg said one such centre at Bal Bhawan, Sector 23-B, and another at Indira Holiday Home, Sector 24, were already functioning. — TNS