Chandigarh, Aug 1 (IANS): The Punjab Water Resources Department has set up an isolation centre at the Ranjit Sagar Dam Hospital in the Pathankot district, bordering Jammu, besides a quarantine facility at Shahpurkandi to deal with Covid-19, officials said on Saturday.
Chief Engineer Ranjit Sagar Dam S.K. Saluja said a 40-bed isolation facility had been set up in the hospital with a quarantine facility for 125 people.
Besides deploying 12 vehicles of the dam project with the local administration for Covid-19 duties, he said eight officers had been performing as executive magistrates to execute the government orders.
To ensure the safety of security personnel, he said, a large number of essential items, like sanitizer, mask and gloves, had been distributed among them, fire fighting staff and the media.