NE NEWS SERVICE
PUDUCHERRY, JUNE 14
Chief Minister of Puducherry N Rangasamy on Monday urged the people to get the jab against Covid-19 without delay and without fail as vaccination is the most powerful protection against the pandemic. Felicitating sponsors and donors from various sectors for augmenting the medical facilities and establishment of a new Covid ward on the premises of the Government Chest Hospital here, he said, “The government alone cannot meet the requirements in the health sector.” He praised private organisations for setting up facilities in the hospital and said this would go a long way in making Puducherry a better place in the health sector.
Glad to Inaugurate additional Oxygen Beds Ward virtually under 'Uyir Katru Project at Government Chest Hospital & IGMC #Puducherry.
Honb CM Shri N.Rangasamy Guest of honor MLA s & Officials.
Thanked sponsors, health sec, PWD sec,DMS for the support to improve health infra at PY pic.twitter.com/9USrlnh6BU— Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan (மோடியின் குடும்பம் ) (@DrTamilisai4BJP) June 14, 2021
The Chief Minister said the establishment of a new Covid ward by Puducherry Heritage Round Table 167, Hindustan Lever Limited, Chamfer and other organisations would meet the requirements for treatment.
To drive home the message on the need for vaccination, he said he himself did not want to get the shots, but soon contracted the virus and had to be hospitalised. “I failed to take the two jabs. Later, I had to take several injections at the hospital,” he said.
Rangasamy said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was keen that people should adopt the safety protocols, and was meeting the requirements of the States to administer the vaccine.
The Chief Minister said Puducherry was at present seeing a decline in the number of fresh cases of coronavirus the reason being many people have realise how vital wearing masks is.
Territorial Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, who spoke virtually from Telangana of which she is also the Governor, said she was glad that as many as 16 organisations had come forward to provide the facilities particularly oxygen beds at the chest hospital.
“It has been found that 95 per cent of the patients admitted for Covid treatment in the ICU in government hospitals were those who had not got vaccinated,” she said and added that this should be an eye-opener to those who have not got the jab.
