DW BUREAU / PATIALA Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu while kick starting upgradation work of Community Health Center Ghanaur in this district, today, said that the existing capacity of 30 beds of the hospital would be enhanced to 50 after completion of renovation and upgradation work worth Rs 10 crore. He said that for providing child and mother health care to the remote areas of this belt of Patiala, a 'Mai Daultan Mother and Child Care Hospital' would also come up here shortly. Elaborating the initiatives of state in the health sector, he said that as per the directions of Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, all the district hospitals of state including some of the Sub Divisional and Community Health Centers catering large number of rural population, would have MRI and CT Scan facility at very low cost (42 to 48 percent less) soon, that would further strengthen government infrastructure under Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojna (AB-SSBY). He said that the state has recruited a large number of doctors, Nurses and Paramedics to strengthen the health sector in Punjab. Lauding the services rendered by the doctors and health care workers during the ongoing CORONA pandemic, he said that their work in the service of humanity is exemplary and they have shown utmost dedication to save the human mankind from the clutches of this deadly virus. On being asked upon by the media about the possibility of second wave of COVID, Health Minister Sidhu made it clear that recent samples from Punjab have not been showing different behaviour of the virus. It's almost the same to the previously appeared symptoms. He said that the State Health Department is capable of caring for COVID patients besides tackling the pandemic and authorities in the field have been asked to conduct sampling in full capacity. Expressing gratitude to the Health Minister, MLA Ghanaur constituency, Madan Lal Jalalpur said that with the starting of the expansion and renovation project of CHC Ghanaur, a long pending demand of the area is going to be fulfilled. He thanked Balbir Singh Sidhu for announcing the setting up of Mother and Child Care Hospital at Ghanaur in the name of Mai Daultan. Expressing special thanks to the Chief Minister of Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh for transforming Ghanaur a developed constituency from under-developed, he said that state has provided special funds for canal based surface drinking supply project, New ITI and development of villages. (editor@dailyworld.in)