Sangrur gets Covid Safety Station

Parvesh Sharma

Tribune News Service

Sangrur, April 6

The district administration has set up a Covid Safety Station at an administrative complex here to control the spread of the deadly virus.

It sanitises each person visiting the administrative complex in four steps. First, an infrared thermal scanner will record the temperature at the entrance. Second, if the person’s body temperature is more than the normal, he will be sent to a flu centre established in the civil hospital here. If not, the person will be asked to wash his hands and feet from the wash basin installed therein.

Third, concentrated sodium hypochlorite solution will be sprayed on the body. And fourth, the person will proceed to a booth where he can dry his hands and feet with the help of newly installed dryers.

“It’s the first-of-its-kind project in the state. In the coming days, the administration will instal Covid Safety Stations in all grain markets of the district to prevent the spread of the virus during the forthcoming wheat season,” said DC Ghanshyam Thori.

The DC further said farmers were expected to start bringing wheat to grain markets on April 10. Sangrur contributes more than 10 per cent of Punjab’s wheat share.

“At present, there are three models of the service station, which cost us Rs1 lakh to Rs2 lakh. We are trying to arrange more funds for the project. The safety station can easily sanitise four to five persons within a minute,” the DC said, adding District Revenue Officer (DRO) Gagandeep Singh had been appointed the in-charge of the project.

The Sangrur Industrial Chamber, which has funded the project, is planning more service stations. Its president Ghanshyam Kansal said, “We will fund the setting up of safety stations in the offices of Sangrur and Patiala SSPs in coming two-three days.”

“We made the safety station in 20 hours on the directions of DC Thori. We are ready to manufacture more,” said Balwinder Jindal, former president, SIC.

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Four-step scanning

1. Infrared thermal scanner records body temperature

2. If temperature more than normal, the person will be sent to a flu centre in civil hospital

If not, the person will be asked to wash his hands and feet

3. Sodium hypochlorite solution is sprayed on the body

4. Proceed to a booth where hands and feet can be dried with the help of dryers