Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU: May 16: Former Minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla today demanded upgrading the facilities in the designated hospitals to provide level-3 treatment to the patients in the wake of increase in COVID-19 cases over the past few weeks.
“We need to be meticulous about the services that are being provided at the designated COVID-19 hospitals and have to increase our strength in terms of enhanced facilities and manpower. Better patient care should be the top priority for the health department,” he said.
Stressing on the need to lower the burden on the tertiary health care institutes, he said there is a need to upgrade our Level-2 hospitals to Level 3.
He also emphasised the need to ramp up testing of suspected COVID-19 patients besides augmenting the capacity and facilities of the laboratories.
He said increasing the sample testing should be the focus of the authorities in order to have a clear picture about the disease for tackling it in a better way, adding the surveillance teams in all the districts should work on a commensurate basis with the population.
Former Minister said the Government has completely failed in tackling Coronavirus, in preventing it, in identifying people affected by the virus, in quarantining them, and in taking important steps
“This government runs on knee-jerk reactions, whether it comes to taking economic steps to revive or stabilising the economy and to prevent economic corona from affecting the investors’ lifetime savings, or preventing Coronavirus from spreading in this country,” Bhalla further said.
Meanwhile, former Minister continued to extend his helping hand by distributing food packets among needy persons in various parts of the Gandhi Nagar Constituency.
Prominent among those who accompanied Bhalla included Sr General Secretary DCC Urban Puneet Arora, DCC General Secretary Urban Aman Bawa, DCC General Secretary Urban Jatin Vashisht, Pardeep Bhalla, Vijay Khajuria Viju, Vipan Sharma Kaka, Arvinder Sharma, Neelam, Anita, Kinder, Rahul, Sagar, Kartar Singh, Ravila Bhatti, Sham Singh, Rohit Choudhary, Sanjay Gupta and Murli.
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