Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday said that Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College (KCGMC) in Karnal is the second institute in the state after PGIMS, Rohtak to provide quality health services to the patients.
The Chief Minister was addressing a gathering at KCGMC, Karnal after felicitating the health workers who have rendered excellent services during COVID-19. He inaugurated a dialysis centre in the medical college built at a cost of Rs 1 crore. As many as eight machines have been installed in this dialysis centre.
Khattar said that with the setting up of this dialysis centre, timely and required treatment to critical patients can be assured and their lives would be saved.
Lauding the pivotal role played by the doctors and health workers in KCGMC during the pandemic, the Chief Minister said that the doctors, while considering social service as their supreme religion, had treated every patient as their own family.
He said that Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya University of Medical Sciences to be built in Kutel village would also greatly benefit the health services being provided by KCGMC.
He also said that efforts are being made by the State Government to ensure maximum vaccination so that safety of everyone can be ensured from the expected third wave of COVID-19. Haryana is geared up to tackle the third wave. All the adequate arrangements have been made. Oxygen plants are also being set up at CHC level in the state, he added.
The Chief Minister further said that the second wave was very dangerous and the shortage of oxygen was overcome with continuous efforts.
Speaking on this occasion, Karnal MP Sanjay Bhatia thanked the religious and social organizations of the district for supporting the State Government in the fight against this pandemic.
He informed that as many as one lakh masks were given by an American company and 15 lakh masks and PPE kits are being transported to the state by sea route.