Punjab Youth Development Board chairperson Sukhjinder Bindra inaugurated a drive-through Covid-19 testing facility and three special open-air testing centres in Mohali.
The drive-through facility has come up at the sports stadium in Sector 78. “The drive-through testing is easy and hassle free facility started by Mohali Administration”, said Bindra after getting his Covid test done at the inauguration.
He said, “Maximum people should avail benefit of these centres and come forward for testing to make Mission Fateh a success.”
Procedure to get Covid test done
At the drive-through testing facility in GMADA sports Complex, Sector 78, a person may arrive at the testing location in his vehicle. He can register at a counter near the entry gate and drive to the sampling counter for the nose or throat swab without disembarking from the vehicle. The entire exercise takes about five minutes and the test result will be conveyed through a message on phone.
3 open-air centres set up
Mohali
District Administration has also augmented the testing centres in the district
to facilitate maximum public footfall, informed Deputy Commissioner Girish
Dayalan.
The open-air centres have been set up in Shaheed Major Harminderpal Singh
Government College, Phase 6; Ram Bhawan , Dussehra Ground, Kharar; and Government
Senior Secondary School, Lohgarh.
“Aggressive Covid-19 sampling mandates ample testing facilities. So, we have increased the testing centres. To allay the public fear of going to hospitals, the new testing centres have been set up in open air, in grounds/maidans and stadia,” said Dayalan.
Now, there are 13 government Covid testing centres in the district.
A list of government testing centres
where Covid test is done free:
District Hospital
Mohali
Primary Health Centre, Gharuan
Sub Divisional Hospital, Dera Bassi
Community Health Centre, Kurali
Sub Divisional Hospital, Kharar
Primary Health Centre, Lalru
Primary Health Centre, Dhakoli
Primary Health Centre, Boothgarh
Primary Health Centre, Banur
Sports Complex GMADA, Sector 78, Mohali
Shaheed Major Harminderpal Singh Government College, Phase 6, SAS Nagar Ram Bhawan Dussehera Ground, Kharar
Government Senior Secondary School, Lohgarh