Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 5
To honour and motivate the police personnel working at the frontline of the battle against Covid-19, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has authorised the DGP to institute a new award for cops doing exceptional work and going beyond the call of duty during the current crisis.
DGP Dinkar Gupta said he had chosen ASI (LR) Bikar Singh and constable Sukhjinder Pal Singh of Moga for the ‘DGP’s Honour & Disc for Exemplary Seva to Society’. The two policemen assisted a woman of Moga’s Dharamkot in delivering a baby two days ago after she had been denied admission by many hospitals late at night.
In addition, the DGP has also selected SHO Sanjeev Kumar of Amritsar, who has been feeding the poor and hungry with a missionary zeal.
Nearly 50,000 policemen are deployed in the field, helping out people, especially the poor, underprivileged, unemployed and homeless people. At times, they also spend out of their pockets to help the needy.
In these difficult times, policemen have taken the lead in galvanising and mobilising the community to arrange for food for the less fortunate such as daily wage workers and migrant labourers. The cops are also working in close coordination with NGOs and religious organisations, especially gurdwaras, to ensure that everyone is fed and taken care of. Till date, they have fed over 3.2 crore people in the state which is more than the state’s total population.
Woman delivers baby on roadside
Tribune News Service
Moga, April 5
A woman was forced to deliver a baby on a roadside in Dharamkot town, Moga district, as no doctor was available to attend to her.
SSP Harmanbir Singh Gill said two policemen on duty called two local women, who helped Jyoti (30) deliver a baby. Her husband Harmesh Kumar, a daily wage earner, said he took Jyoti to the PHC in Dharamkot, but found no doctor there. He then took her to a private hospital, where no one came forward to help them. “Police officials came to our rescue. They also dropped us home,” he said.
Earlier on January 9, two women — Amandeep Kaur and Mamta Rani — gave birth on the floor of the maternity ward in the district hospital here.
No doctor attended to them. Nurses and paramedical staff helped the women deliver babies on the floor of the hospital.
Unfortunately, Amandeep Kaur’s child died of pneumonia later.
Dr Rakesh Bali, Senior Medical Officer, Kot-ise-Khan, said the Health Department staff, posted in the primary health centre (PHC) at Dharamkot, were away to Janer village for screening Covid suspects.