Chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh flagging off the corona mobile testing clinic and ambulance in Chandigarh.
MISSION FATEH
PUNJAB With capacity to collect more than 1,000 samples a day, the ambulance
will focus on testing facilities in far-flung and rural areas
The
air-conditioned mobile unit, which has a separate ambulance zone to evacuate
critical patients, was launched as part of the Mission Fateh Punjab initiative.
An inside view of the mobile corona testing facility.
Explaining
features of the mobile clinic after donating it to Punjab, Vikramjit Singh
Sahney, the chairman of Sun Foundation and the international president of World
Punjabi Organisation, said that clinic is equipped with contact-less thermal
testing and nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab test facility.
The CM said that
the mobile testing bus would cover remote areas and ensure residents have
access to testing, needed to identify infected people and break the Covid
chain.
At present, the
state government has a capacity to conduct 24,000 tests a day and the target is
to achieve 30,000 tests by next week.
State health
minister Balbir Singh Sidhu, principal secretary, health, Hussan Lal and
Gurkirat Kirpal Singh, the special principal secretary to the CM, were present
at the launch.
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Dr. Gurdeep Kaur
Associate Professor
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College
University of Delhi
