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Haryana Ropes in IAS-IPS Officers with Medical Degree to Tackle Covid-19 Crisis

Services of these IAS and IPS officers have been placed at the disposal of the additional chief secretary of Haryana health and family welfare department for creation.
Manohar Lal Khattar
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With a surge in the number of positive cases in the state, the Haryana government has decided to depute IAS and IPS officers with an experience in the medical profession to tackle the Covid crisis in the state.

As per the spokesperson, the services of these civil servants have been placed at the disposal of the additional chief secretary of Haryana health and family welfare department for creation and operation of 500-bedded hospitals in Panipat and Hisar, operating a 100-bedded facility at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College, Faridabad, and any other duties, as required from time to time.

The officers, with a medical degree, who have been deputed for Covid related duties includes Dr Chander Shekhar Khare, director and special secretary (food, civil supplies and consumer affairs); Dr R S Dhillon, director of Haryana Governance Reforms Authority, and managing director of CONFED; Dr Sangeeta Tetarwal, district municipal commissioner of Sirsa; Dr Manoj Kumar, additional deputy commissioner of Jind; and Dr Vaishali Sharma, sub-divisional officer (civil) of Naraingarh.

Three IPS officers will also be contributing their services for the state’s fight against Covid 19. These officers include South Gurugram DCP Dr Dheeraj Kumar, Faridabad NIT DCP Dr Anshu Singla, and Ballabhgarh DCP Dr Arpit Jain.

The government has also imposed a one-week lockdown in the whole state which has started from today, 3 May and will continue till 10 May. 13, 588 cases were recorded in the state yesterday, along with 125 deaths. This has taken the total count to to 5,01,566 and 4,341 fatalities.


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