Mohali District Administration, in active collaboration with the Chandigarh University, has established Punjab’s largest COVID-19 isolation facility under its CU-AID initiative near its campus in Gharuan.
“Punjab Government is taking all precautions and the District Administration Mohali is gearing itself to meet any emergency situation in future,” said Mohali Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan.
He said that CU-isolation facility is part of the State Government’s contingency plan to prepare isolation facilities well in advance so that in case the number of infected cases rises, the Administration can take care to isolate them with quickest response time.
“We are thankful to Chandigarh University’s management and staff that they have created the facility in a very short time,” added Dayalan.
He said that the District Administration is running CU-AID campaign along with Chandigarh University in Kharar and nearby villages where the University Team is distributing cooked meals twice a day to more than 2,000 persons, the varsity’s medical team is distributing free hand sanitizers, face masks to the poor and needy.
“Like Chandigarh University, we request other educational institutions and organizations to come forward and extend their help to the Administration and Government in the time of crisis,” he added.
Kharar SDM Himanshu Jain inspected the isolation facility along with his team and had a look at the preparations made by the University. “We have inspected the CU-Isolation Facility at Gharuan and found that every emergency facility required for the COVID-19 patients is in place which includes ICU units, medicines, PPE kits for the medical team and ambulance facility to shift the patients,” said Jain.
The CU-Isolation facility will be beneficial for the administration which can be used in case there is a spike of infection cases in the nearby villages or Kharar.
Giving details about the facility, CU Chancellor Satnam Singh Sandhu said: “We have prepared CU-Isolation Facility under the guidance of Punjab Government and it comprises of 1000 bed quarantine facility, 200 bed medical centre, OPD for patients, protection kits including face masks patients.”
“COVID-19 dedicated facility has round the clock medical team comprising doctors, 50 para-medical staff who will be looking after the patients and 24x7 ambulance facility to shift the patients,” said Sandhu.
He said that the CU-Isolation facility has all the basic medical facilities, oxygen cylinders and other biomedical equipment and the quarantine facility can be further scaled up for 5000 patients within a few days in case of emergency and if the requirement of administration increases.
