Faridkot, May 31

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday inaugurated an air-conditioned 25-bed Covid centre at an engineering college near here. Established by the Youth Akali Dal (YAD), the centre will provide every service, including medicines, oxygen and food, to patients for free. The centre’s expesnes would be borne by the SAD president.

“People are hesitating to go to government hospitals as they lack basic facilities. They face confusion as to whom they should contact when they are infected with the virus,” he said.

The government needed to open Covid care centres in all blocks, he said. “It is unfortunate that Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and his ministerial colleagues instead of mitigating patients’ suffering, were engaged in a bitter internal feud,” he said. — TNS