Chandigarh April 17: Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal has given his nod for immediate procurement of additional logistic items, medicines, consumables and equipments like thermal scanners and ventilators worth over Rs 72.32 crores for COVID-19 through the Haryana Medical Services Corporation Limited (HMSCL) so as to meet the demand of the health institutions in the State.

While stating this here today, an official spokesman said that the essential medicines, consumables or equipments to be purchased include 11,91,390 N-95 masks, 54,54,634 triple layer mask, 14,81,639 sterile PPE kit, 38,59,867 gloves, 11,63,043 hydroxy-chloroquine tablet (400mg), 3,12,050 hand sanitizer (500 ml), 85,000 rapid test kits, 7000 real time PCR kit, 1.10 lakh disposable bed sheets, 77 lakh levo-citrizine, 22 lakh azithromycin (500mg), 11 lakh zinc tablet, 55,000 cotton (500gm), 44,000 cotton gauze than, 4,400 disposable dead body bags, 44,000 denatured spirit, 1,03,042 VTM and 22,000 disinfectant-hypo chloride solution.

The spokesman said that equipments and other items to be purchased include 2200 hand-held thermal scanner at the rate of 100 each for all districts, 1 digital flat panel detector system doing X-ray and 1 ultrasound machine with convex, sector (cardiac) and Linear (vascular) probes for COVID-19 patients for Radiology Department, Civil Hospital Panchkula, 46 Ventilators (Adult) - Panchkula (2), Ambala (3), Yamunanagar (3), Kurukshetra (3), Kaithal (3), Jind (3), Panipat (2), Palwal (3), Nuh (3), Rewari (3), Hisar (3), Bhiwani (1), Narnaul (3), Fatehabad (3), Sirsa (2), Charkhi Dadri (3) and Jhajjar (3).

Apart from this, 35 Ventilators ( Pediatric) would also be purchased. These include Panchkula (2), Ambala (2), Yamunanagar (1), Karnal (2), Kurukshetra (2), Kaithal (2), Jind (2), Panipat (2), Faridabad (2), Rohtak (1), Palwal (2), Nuh (2), Rewari (2), Bhiwani (2), Narnaul (2), Fatehabad (2), Sirsa (1), Charkhi Dadri (2) and Jhajjjar (2).