Sukhbir Singh Badal flagsoff first ventilator equipped ambulance for Jalalabad residents

Bathinda, April 7 – Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President and Ferozepur MP Sukhbir Singh Badal today flagged off the first ventilator equipped Ambulance for residents of Jalalabad and surrounding border villages to provide intensive care to critical patients, including those suffering from Coronavirus.

The Rs 17.19 lakh ambulance which was flagged off from Badal village by the SAD President on World Health Day, follows the Rs one crore sanctioned by the Ferozepur MP for purchase of ventilators for government hospitals in Ferozepur parliamentary constituency last week.The money was put at the disposal of the Deputy Commissioners of the respective districts with a clear direction to make provisions for the quick purchase of ventilators and get them installed at all the government hospitals to ensure they were adequately equipped to deal with the critical patients especially those suffering with Coronavirus. The process to purchase the ventilators was immediately initiated and the equipment will soon be installed in all the government hospitals falling within the territorial limits of Ferozepur Lok Sabha.

Mr Sukhbir Badal said as the 100-bed Civil Hospital at Jalalabad, which was constructed during the SAD-BJP government in Punjab, catered to hundreds of border area villages, he had decided to provide a ventilator equipped Ambulance for the same with an objective to ensure that no one in the area suffered due to lack of emergency healthcare services.

While flagging off the Ambulance, in the presence of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) Dr Raj Bahadur, the SAD President requested chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh to augment the healthcare facilities across the state. He mentioned that the State government should learn a lesson from the death of Hazoori Ragi Padma Shri Nirmal Singh Khalsa ji, who in his last telephonic conversation with his family members had expressed utter despair at the lack of medical facilities at the Government Medical College hospital at Amritsar. “The situation is no different at other places too. So, it’s the high time for the chief minister to take stock the things and do the best possible to save the lives of people of the State,” he added.

Meanwhile, Mr Badal expressed deep gratitude to all doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff who were in the frontline of the fight against Covid-19. He also appealed to the people of the state to practice social distancing and follow the norms of personal hygiene to check the spread of Coronavirus pandemic.

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