To further augment the health infrastructure for successfully taking on the possible third Coronavirus wave, ten pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen generating plants and paediatric intensive care unit
(PICU) have come up in Ludhiana district, Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan said on Saturday.
Addressing, ‘Naman’ — a gratitude ceremony to honour Covid warriors, in Ludhiana, she said of the 10 PSA plants with a capacity of 5,500 LPM (litre per minute), the work on two such plants has already been completed while the remaining would be made functional within this month. A PICU at Civil Hospital in Ludhiana would also be ready by next week.
Appreciating the efforts of the district administration in successfully coming over the first and second Covid waves, the Chief Secretary expressed satisfaction over the fact that 50 per cent eligible population of the district has received either single or both doses of Covid vaccine, which would help fight effectively the possible wave of the pandemic in future, if any.
She directed the district authorities to continue with the sampling on a large scale to test, trace, and treat the virus patients at an early stage.