Sub District Hospital converted to full-fledged COVID facility in Ponda: Goa CM Pramod Sawant
Panaji: The sub-district hospital in Ponda in North Goa will be converted into a COVID-19 facility to ensure that best of healthcare facilities are made available for the people in the state and to further strengthen the fight against coronavirus pandemic.
Confirmation to this effect has been given by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant who announced the same via his social media platform.
The state's only COVID-19 treatment facility is the 200-bed ESI Hospital in Margao and the one at Ponda will be the second one to fight the outbreak, Sawant added.
"To ensure that best of healthcare facilities are made available for people in the state and to further strengthen our fight against coronavirus pandemic, the Sub District Hospital at Ponda is being converted into a full-fledged #COVID19 Hospital," he tweeted.
To ensure that best of healthcare facilities are made available for the people in the state and to further strengthen our fight against coronavirus pandemic, the Sub District Hospital at Ponda is being converted into a full fledged #COVID19 Hospital.
— Dr. Pramod Sawant (@DrPramodPSawant) August 9, 2020
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