Gandhinagar: While dedicating 115 oxygen generating PSA plants for various hospitals at one go, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said, the State is ready if third wave of covid-19 pandemic occurs. Rupani said the State government has installed and readied 250 oxygen generation plants. He said the State government has target to install 500 oxygen generating PSA plants and works are in progress for that. Rupani said the State government wants to make sure that the people get RT-PCR reports within 24 hours, and therefore it is building 1 lakh test per day capacity for which 51 new RT-PCR machines have been dedicated today. Rupani during the function also dedicated 200 new ventilators.

The Chief Minister in his address said, ‘we have controlled the second wave of covid19 pandemic very well. Many states are still not out of the second wave. Kerala witnesses 23,000 cases daily, Maharashtra witnesses 8,000 cases daily. Today by 5 pm, only 19 fresh cases of covid-19 are reported across Gujarat. We have controlled second wave. For last 40 days, we have less than 50 cases. Even after we controlled the first wave and also conducted elections, daily tally had not come below 230 at any point, but now as we have come out of second wave, we are seeing 15-20-25 daily cases.

Rupani also spoke about the services like free treatment to 8.25 lakh people, free injections and pills etc offered by the Government during pandemic.

He said, Gujarat government has been administering daily six lakh vaccine doses against Covid-19 for last three days on daily basis.

As part of its ‘Vikas Divas’ celebration on completion of five years of Vijay Rupani and Nitin Patel led government in the State, the State government at ‘Aarogya Sukhakari’ function in Himmatnagar today felicitated 1,000 village sarpanchs who have achieved 100 percent covid vaccination in their village. Inauguration and foundation stone laying of 71 works of the health department also took place. 10 Community Health Centers (CHC) built at a cost of Rs 58 crores, 22 Primary Health Centers (PHC) and 18 sub-centers were dedicated. Khat-muhurat of 2 Primary Health Centers (PHC) and 19 Sub-centers built at cost of Rs 70 crores was also performed. DeshGujarat