Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij pays surprise visit to Panchkula Civil Hospital

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, January 7

As Covid cases continue to rise, Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij today conducted a surprise inspection at the Civil Hospital in Sector 6 and took stock of the PSA oxygen plant and other medical arrangements to tackle the third wave of the pandemic.

He said the second genome sequencing lab of the state would be set up in Panchkula.

“A genome sequencing laboratory is already functional at Rohtak. Another will come up in Panchkula,” he stated.

He said the state was “atmanirbhar” with regard to the medical oxygen availability and fully prepared to tackle the third wave.

Speaking to mediapersons, Vij said the state would not face an oxygen crisis as it did during the second wave.

“At least 84 oxygen plants have been set up at government hospitals and medical colleges across the state, while 54 have been set up at private healthcare facilities,” he said. On December 31, Vij had conducted a suprise inpection at the Faridabad Civil Hospital.

Hitting out at Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security breach, he said democracy did not mean that the Prime Minister could be stopped anywhere in the midst of the public.

He said Channi’s clarification corroboratesdhis involvement in the “well-planned conspiracy” to stop the Prime Minister’s cavalcade.