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JALANDHAR: A gurdwara in Seechewal village has decided to use the gold meant for the pinnacle of the dome of the building to buy an ambulance and other equipment required to save lives of Covid patients.
Environmentalist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal said people had donated gold, including ornaments in the last few years for the project. Though the gurdwara was built some years ago, and a dome was also built, the pinnacle is yet to be made. Devotees wanted to gold plate the pinnacle.
“Now, we have decided to purchase an ambulance and if we still have money left we will buy other equipment required,” added Baba Seechewal. According to him, the village panchayat has already established a Covid care facility in the village where people without access to space to isolate themselves can stay.
5089 DC Ghanshyam Thori and ADC Jasbir Singh meet Civil Surgeon Dr Gurinder Kaur Chawla and health officers regarding Covid vaccine arrival in Jalandhar on Tuesday. Tribune Photo
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, December 22
Further stepping its efforts to ensure an effective mechanism for administering Covid-19 vaccine whenever it arrives, the district administration on Tuesday has earmarked 33 session sites (vaccination sites), where the vaccine would be given to frontline health workers under its first phase.
Presiding over a meeting of the district task force at the District Administrative Complex, Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori said these 33 sites include 24 in urban and nine in the rural belt of the district, where a five-member team including one vaccinator, two support staff, security personnel and one person to verify documents for 100 frontline workers would be deputed at each site.