Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 30

Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Friday said all Chief Medical Officers should ensure that treatment and admission of Covid patients were not affected during the movement of VIPs in the hospitals.

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The first priority was the patients and their treatment, Vij tweeted. 

All CMO should ensure that treatment and admissions of Corona patients are not effected during VIP movements in the Hospitals. Our first priority is the patients and there treatment.

— ANIL VIJ MINISTER HARYANA (@anilvijminister) April 30, 2021

The tweet was posted in the wake of Thursday's incident at Jind civil hospital when two patients had to wait outside the hospital during the visit of the chief minister as the police had restricted the entry to the hospital.

Later, the chief minister asked the CMO that the patients should not get affected in the name of security protocols.

In another tweet, the minister appealed to social, political, religious and other organisations in Haryana to open 'roti bank' (food bank) for Covid patients admitted to various hospitals.

"All social, political, commercial, religious and any other organisations in the state of Haryana are requested to run ROTI BANK for Corona Patients admitted in Hospitals as is being done at Civil Hospital Ambala Cantt. If they like, they can visit Roti Bank at Ambala Cantt," he said.

'Roti bank' is the initiative of an NGO under which free meals are provided to patients and one of their attendants at the Civil Hospital, Ambala Cantt.