Tamil Nadu CM to visit three western districts

COIMBATORE: Chief minister M K Stalin is all set to inspect a Covid care centre in Tirupur and the ESI Hospital in Coimbatore, where he would convene a meeting with the bureaucrats of two more districts - Erode and the Nilgiris - on Sunday.
Medical and family welfare minister Ma Subramanian said the chief minister would inaugurate 110 Covid care centres and 20 car ambulance services in Tirupur during his visit.
During his maiden visit to Coimbatore as the chief minister on May 20, Stalin had inaugurated a Covid care centre at the Codissia trade fair complex and another 360-bed care centre at Kumaraguru College of Technology at Saravanampatti.
Subramanian inspected Covid care centres in Tirupur on Saturday and later conducted a meeting with the bureaucrats at the Coimbatore collectorate, along with food and civil supplies minister R Sakkarapani, to discuss the measures to be taken to control the virus spread.
Stalin would, meanwhile, arrive at the Erode circuit house around 9pm on Saturday. He is scheduled to inspect IRT Medical College at Perundurai in Erode from 10am to 10.30am on Sunday and the Covid care centre at Kumaran College in Tirupur between 11am and 11.30am.
The chief minister is expected to reach the ESI Hospital in Coimbatore around 12.30pm and an hour there. Later, he would convene a review meeting with the officials of Coimbatore, Nilgiris, Tirupur and Erode districts at the Coimbatore collectorate from 4pm to 6pm, before addressing the media.