Karnal admn making 300 personal safety kits daily

Parveen Arora
Tribune News Service
Karnal, April 1

Aiming at meeting the increasing demand of personal protection equipment (PPE) kits for the safety of the doctors as well as paramedical staff, the district administration has started manufacturing kits in the city with the help of local industrialists working in the field of textile.

10 women groups to make 1 lakh masks

The Karnal administration has roped in 10 women self-help groups working under the Haryana State Rural Livelihoods Mission to supply 1 lakh masks in the district. In all, 80 women are on the job and making 5,000 masks daily, which are being sold at a counter at the Mini-Secretariat. DC Nishant Kumar Yadav said the price of masks has been fixed at Rs7 each.

The authorities have roped in three industrialists in this task and the quality of the kits is being monitored by doctors of the KCGMC. These industrialists have started production of 300 kits daily.

With the rising Covid cases in the state, the demand of these kits has increased manifold. Along with doctors and paramedical staff, the sanitation workers are also exposed to the risk of contamination.

“The production started a week back. Initially, around 100 kits were being produced every day, but the number has increased to 300 now,” said Nishant Kumar Yadav, DC. These kits are being supplied to the KCGMC, Civil Hospital, and 200-bed quarantine facility centre at Sainik School Kunjpura, he added.

The administration is providing the material required for kits, besides bearing the labour and other costs.

ADC Anish Kumar Yadav is the nodal officer for the production of these kits.