With 500 Oxygen beds, Hisar school to open doors to Covid patients

Deepender Deswal

Tribune News Service

Hisar, May 12

Om Prakash Jindal Modern School in Hisar is being converted into a 500-bed Covid hospital in view of rising cases. The work on the temporary facility, which will get an uninterrupted oxygen supply from an adjoining Jindal Steel unit, is under way on a war footing.

All beds at the hospital will have oxygen support.

Deputy Commissioner (DC) Priyanka Soni said the hospital was likely to become operational by May 16, ahead of the May 18 deadline fixed by the state government.

“Over 80 per cent work on the project has been completed. Besides four blocks for admission, the centre will have an OPD, pharmacy unit and a store,” said the DC.

With 647 deaths so far, Hisar district has recorded the highest number of fatalities, leaving behind Gurugram and Faridabad, which have registered 612 and 598 deaths, respectively.

Vinod Mehta, Principal Media Adviser to the Chief Minister, said the CM had visited Hisar on April 27 to finalise a Covid centre at the school. “The facility will get piped oxygen from the Jindal Steel plant located close to the school,” he added.

Facility available from May 16

• The centre is likely to become operational on May 16, ahead of the May 18 deadline
• All beds will have oxygen support and 80% work on the centre complete
• Facility to have four blocks for admission, an OPD, pharmacy unit and a store

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