Soon, Punjab Government is set to provide MRI and CT Scan facility at its district hospitals at subsidized rates.
“All the District Hospitals of the state, including some of the Sub-Divisional and Community Health Centers, catering large number of rural population, would have MRI and CT Scan facility at very low cost — about 42 to 48% less — soon, that would further strengthen govt infrastructure under Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojna (AB-SSBY),” said the state Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Sunday. “The State Govt has recruited a large number of doctors, nurses, and paramedics to strengthen the health sector in Punjab,” said Sidhu, while kickstarting the upgradation work of Community Health Center at Ghanaur in Patiala district. He said that the existing capacity of 30 beds of the hospital would be enhanced to 50 after completion of renovation and upgradation work worth Rs 10 crore. “For providing child and mother healthcare to the remote areas of this belt of Patiala, a ‘Mai Daultan Mother and Child Care Hospital’ would also come up here shortly,” he said.Applauding the services rendered by the doctors and healthcare workers during the ongoing Corona pandemic, the Minister said that their work in the service of humanity is exemplary and they have shown utmost dedication to save the human mankind from the clutches of this deadly virus.
Regarding the possibility of a second COVID wave, the Minister made it clear that the recent samples from Punjab have not been showing different behaviour of virus. “It’s almost the same to the previously appeared symptoms. The State Health Department is capable to take care of the COVID patients besides tackling the pandemic and authorities in the field have been asked to conduct sampling in full capacity,” he said.