Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday virtually inaugurated a makeshift dedicated Covid healthcare centre near Dharamshala for Covid patients. The facility has 250 fully oxygenated beds, for critical patients, and a central oxygen supply system.

The hospital with oxygen beds was set up at a space provided by Radha Soami Satsang Beas at Paraur in Kangra district, for which Tahkur thanked the organisation. “The volunteers of Radha Soami Satsang Beas would also provide food to patients and their attendants free of cost which is a great service towards humanity,” said the chief minister, thanking the religious organisation.

Commenting on  various developments aimed at expanding health infrastructure capacity to tackle the pandemic, the chief minister said, “It was due to the efforts of the state government that the Centre has doubled Himachal’s oxygen quota from 15 MT to 30 MT.” “Now the government has urged the Centre to increase the same by 10 MT more for which the government has agreed in principle,” Thakur said. 

The state government has also increased the number of D-Type cylinders from 2,500 to about 6,300 thereby enhancing the storage capacity of oxygen by 25MT, Thakur said, adding the hospital beds too have been increased from 1,200 to about 5,000.

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