Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 12

In line with the trend that started in Gurgaon and other cities with high number of Covid cases, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee chief Jagir Kaur on Wednesday opened a 25-bed L-2 facility Covid care unit in Bholath.

While owner of the resort, Gurmail Singh, offered the place be used as a health centre. Jagir Kaur, who has been MLA in the constituency, got the facility started by providing 25 beds with 10 oxygen concentrators, an ambulance, eight doctors and 13 staff nurses from the SGPC side. Today, two Covid patients took admission in the centre, which will function 24x7.

Jagir Kaur’s son-in-law Yuvraj Bhupinder Singh said that the new L-2 facility had been started at a time when the spread of Covid had increased in the rural belt. He added though Bholath had a 100-bed four-storey government hospital, it does not have any ventilator facility. “Most patients still need to go to Civil Hospitals in the adjoining districts wasting the much crucial time and money. We are ready to arrange for a ventilator but there are no trained experts available to make it operational,” he said.