After opening eight COVID Care Centres in Punjab, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee will start ‘Vaccine Sewa’ at Amritsar from May 29. Announcing this, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday also announced further extension of the Oxygen Sewa started by the party to more constituencies in the State.
Sukhbir, who was in Abohar to start the Oxygen Sewa initiative, also released helpline numbers. “The technicians hired by SAD would provide and install Oxygen concentrators at residences of the needy persons,” he added.
He said that the SGPC and SAD were providing vaccines and medical facilities, including Oxygen concentrators, to the people even as the Congress Government had failed to provide quality medical healthcare due to which the mortality rate was the highest in Punjab.
“More than 500 concentrators had been imported and the Sewa, which had been launched in 10 constituencies presently, would be broad based further,” he said adding that the party was now providing ‘langar sewa’ to COVID patients and their families in 70 constituencies. Asserting that the third COVID wave could be even more severe than the first two, Sukhbir asked the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to immediately order vaccines worth Rs 1,000 crore to vaccinate everyone in the next six months.
“The Congress government is befooling Punjabis by trying to order vaccines from global companies which have not been approved by the Indian Government…Instead of doing this, the Government should place its orders for any number of Covaxin, Covishield, or Sputnik doses. The SGPC was able to order and receive a consignment of Covaxin within 10 days,” he added.