Restart drive-through facility for vaccine, Panchkula MLA urges health department

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, May 23

After an overwhelming response from the two-day drive-through vaccination camp organised at the Parade Ground in Sector 5 here, Haryana Assembly Speaker and local MLA Gian Chand Gupta today suggested the Health Department to restart the drive.

Gupta stated this after visiting Alchemist Hospital in Sector 21 here today. He said as people were now demanding the continuation of the drive-through vaccination camp, he suggested Health Department officials to consider holding the camp on a regular basis.

A total of 5,257 persons were vaccinated during the two-day drive-through vaccination camp that concluded here on Saturday.

Gupta interacted with patients at the hospital and also took stock of the arrangements being made to deal with black fungus the third wave of Covid-19. He instructed the hospital management that Covid patients should be treated at the rates prescribed by the government. Strict action would be taken against those overcharging on medicines or other expenses.

The hospital management and doctors suggested that the district administration should arrange a sufficient number of oxygen cylinders and at least 100 BiPAP machines. On this, Gupta assured the hospital management that there would be no shortage of any equipment or oxygen from the administration.

Member of the Haryana Pharmacy Council and Monitoring Committee BB Singal, Deputy CMO Dr Rajeev Narwal, Dr Paramjit Mann, tehsildar Punyadeep Sharma and Dr Bhanu Pratap were among those present on the occasion.