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Bilaspur 31 May,2021- Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha andNational BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur andUnion Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Singh Thakurtoday virtually laid foundation stones of 140 LPM PSA oxygen plant at Dr.Radhakrishanan Government Medical College, Hamirpur and another 140 LPM PSAOxygen Plant at CHC Ghumarwin in Bilaspur district today. The each LPM PSAPlant would provide uninterrupted oxygen supply to 30 beds each.Whileaddressing the event from New Delhi, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha andNational BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda said that when most of the NationalPolitical Parties has gone under virtual quarantine, the BJP, through its “SewaHi Sangathan” has come forward to help the people of the State in fighting thepandemic and mitigating the sufferings of the common man. He said that theCorona pandemic was one of the biggest tragedies of the century thus theefforts required were to be big. He said that the Union Government under theleadership of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, free ration was provided toabout 80 crore people of the country both during the first wave last year andalso during the second wave this year. JagatPrakash Nadda said that the Union Government has provided subsidy onfertilizers to facilitate the farmers of the country during this pandemic. Hesaid that this has benefitted crores of farmers of the country. He said thatsimilarly, crores of farmers of the country have been benefitted under thePradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana. He said that as many as9,26,963 eligible farmers of the State have been provided assistance ofRs. 1355.80 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojna till now.NationalBJP President said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has effectively guided thenation during the pandemic. He said that there was only one virology lab totest Corona virus in the country last year, but the country today has over 2500labs providing immediate testing facilities to the corona patients. He alsoappreciated the Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate AffairsAnurag Singh Thakur for generously helping the State fighting thispandemic. ChiefMinister Jai Ram Thakur said that the State had only around 200 active cases ofCovid as on 23rd February 2021 and thereafter 2nd wave struckthe State. He said that fortunately now the recovery rate in the Statewas 89.3 percent, which has seen an improvement in last few days. He saidthat the State Government was leaving no stone unturned to ramp up the testing.He said that last year when the pandemic struck, there was not even one lab inthe State which could do Covid testing, but the State Government undertookurgent steps and in no time established a network of 8 RT-PCR, 25 TrueNat and 2CBNAAT Labs. To increase testing in the far-flung and rural areas, as many as70 ambulances have been deployed by the Government in various districts, headded. JaiRam Thakur said that on 1st March 2021, the State had only 11Dedicated Covid Hospitals/Dedicated Covid Health Centres in the State with abed capacity of 440 beds with 32 ICU/Ventilator Beds, but the State added 46more facilities with a bed strength of around 3500 beds and more than 250ICU/ventilator beds. Now there were 57 Dedicated Covid Hospitals/DedicatedCovid Health Centres in the State with a bed capacity of around 4000 beds with290 ICU/Ventilator Beds. He said that with the three Makeshift Hospitalsat Khaliyar in Mandi district, Paraur in Kangra district and Rabon inSolan district has increased the bed capacity to about 5000 beds.ChiefMinister said that the current inventory of D-Type cylinders was around 7755and the State also has 2328 B-Type cylinders. He said that a Liquid oxygencryo facility of 15KL is functional at Tanda Medical College and an ASU (AirSeparation Unit) facility had been made functional at IGMC Shimla of around 350D-Type capacity. He said that yesterday he had inaugurated a LMOfacility of 20 kilolitre cryogenic tank at IGMC Shimla. He said that PSAplants have been added to the State’s resources in the last few months and werenow functional at Dr. YSPGMC Nahan, Pt. JLNGMC Chamba, Dr. RKGMC Hamirpur, ZHDharamshala, DDU Shimla and SLBSGMC Ner Chowk. Two PSA plants of 1000 LPM werebeing constructed at MCH ZH Mandi and CH Palampur, he added. JaiRam Thakur said that the State Government has provided about 23.59 lakh dosesof vaccination to the people in the State. He said that the State was one ofthe few states of the country to achieve zero percent wastage ofvaccination. He thanked the Union Minister of State for Finance andCorporate Affairs for his generous contribution to the State in fighting thispandemic. ChiefMinister said that the present Centre Government has successfully completed twoyear of its present tenure and a total seven years in office and this tenurehas proved a boon to the people of the country. He said that India has todayemerged as World Power and Vishwa Guru. UnionMinister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Singh Thakur whilewelcoming the National BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda and Chief Minister JaiRam Thakur said that it was due to initiative of the National BJP Presidentthat each and every party functionary contributed generously towards helpingthe Covid-19 patients and their families. He said that not even a single PPEkit was produced in country when Corona pandemic started, today the Nation wasproducing about 20 lakh PPE kits per day. He said that as many as 23 croredoses of vaccine had been administered to the people in the country.AnuragSingh Thakur said that oxygen bank would be set up in Himachal Pradesh whichwould provide uninterrupted oxygen supply to 700 beds. He said that NationalBJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda would flag off first consignment of 108oxygen concentrators and 160 oxygen cylinders for this Oxygen Bank.HealthMinister Dr. Rajiv Saizal presented vote of thanks. StateBJP President Suresh Kashyap, State BJP In-charge Avinash Rai Khanna,Co-Incharge Sanjay Tandon, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs MinisterRajinder Garg joined the event virtually whereas MLA Jhandutta J.R. Katwal,Political Advisor to the Chief Minister Trilok Jamwal and Secretary HealthAmitabh Awasthi were present at Shimla with the Chief Minister.
