Two more Covid care centres to come up in Chandigarh

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 10

Amid a sharp rise in Covid cases, the UT Administration has allowed two organisations to set up mini-Covid care centres.

Yashpal Garg, Nodal Officer for Covid care centre in the UT, said the permission was granted to the Rotary Satellite Club to set up and operate a centre at the Community Centre, Sector 47, and Kandhari Beverages Pvt Ltd to set up and operate a centre at Sports Complex, Sector 34.

NOD TO ORGANISATIONS

Permission for setting up centres has been granted to the Rotary Satellite Club and Kandhari Beverages Pvt Ltd.

Garg said seven such centres were already functional in the city — Bal Bhawan, Sector 23, Indira Holiday Home, Infosys Sarai, Sector 12, DRDO Covid quarantine-cum-care centre, Sector 38-B, Aurobindo School, Sector 27, Girls Senior Secondary School, Sector 8-B, and Sports Complex, Sector 43.

The UT Administration had given a clarion call for setting up mini-Covid care centres voluntarily by any individual, association, organisation, NGO, religious organisation, corporate, firm, or Trust. Food, medicines and other facilities at the centre would be provided free of cost and nothing would be charged from the patients, said the Administration.