Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has announced the Punjab province will soon achieve the capacity of conducting 10 thousand coronavirus diagnostic tests every day adding that establishment of eight new labs in different districts is near completion.
While presiding over a meeting of assembly members of Rawalpindi at Commissioner’s Office in Rawalpindi, the CM told that field hospitals have been set up in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sargodha and other districts with a total capacity of 4500 beds, which could also be increased to 10,000 beds.
More than 43,000 coronavirus tests have been conducted in the province, he added. The lockdown strategy has yielded positive results and the construction industry was being restarted under specific SOPs.
The construction of roads, hospitals and schools will be resumed in the first phase with some stipulations while the resumption of different industries will be reviewed on a case-to-case basis, he added.
He made it clear that Commissioner will be empowered to ease or severe the lockdown conditions and a procedure was also being designed to provide necessary relief to the citizens in the holy month of Ramadan-Ul-Mabarak.
The purposing of easing the lockdown conditions is to facilitate the general public, he maintained.
Meanwhile, he stated that PPEs and other materials were being arranged daily while financial aid under Insaf Imdad Programme will be provided purely on merit.
The CM told that anti-dengue campaign was being launched adding that wheat procurement target will also be achieved. He disclosed that out of 2945 patients in the province, 508 have been healed and the arrangement was being made to inoculate the plasma of recovered patients in severe patients.
The CM also directed the Administration to devise a strategy to overcome the menace of professional beggary.
The assembly members congratulated the CM over the praise of Punjab government by the apex court and maintained that this has proved that the performance of Usman Buzdar is better than others. Provincial Ministers Dr Yasmeen Rashid, Raja Rashid Hafeez, parliamentarians and others attended the meeting.
Chief Minister also inspected the 100-bed corona field hospital set up by the private sector in Rawalpindi.
He appreciated the cooperation extended by the private sector adding that collective efforts are needed to control the coronavirus. The people should remain confined to their homes to decrease the spread of coronavirus while easing the lockdown was a collective decision, he added.
