Mewat college turns into Covid hospital

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 4

Ramping up its preparations to tackle Covid, the Haryana Government has announced that Shaheed Hasan Khan Mewati Government Medical College at Nalhar will now be an exclusive Covid hospital. The college has a capacity of 600 beds.

Haryana Chief Secretary Keshni Anand Arora shared this while presiding over the meeting of the Crisis Coordination Committee through video conferencing here today. She directed the officers that the patients who are already admitted in the hospital should be immediately shifted to nearby hospitals after duly following all transfer protocols as per the guidelines.

Apart from this, the availability and supply of adequate medical equipment including PPE kits, masks etc in this hospital should be ensured.

She directed that the officers should also ensure that exclusive Covid wards are made in the hospitals and medical colleges across the state.

The Chief Secretary further directed that possibilities should be explored to convert medical colleges into exclusively Covid hospitals. Private laboratories should be identified in each district which can be designated for Covid testing. Along with this, the availability of rapid testing kits should be ensured in every hospital and medical college, she added.

The Chief Secretary directed that the order for rate capping of vegetables has already been issued and all the Deputy Commissioners should ensure that the shops and street hawkers should not sell vegetables beyond the capped rate. She further shared that the rate capping order should be widely circulated on social media so that people could be made aware of the rates.

She directed that the officers should also ensure that the rate list is pasted outside the shops and on the carts of the street hawkers. She further directed that the rate capping of ‘moong dal’ and mustard oil should also be done.