Rajnath Singh Asks Armed Forces To Offer Expertise To Fight COVID Crisis

Delhi, 20 April 2021 – Breaking news now coming in we are given to understand the Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has spoken to the Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane and the defense secretary as well as the DRDO Chief and has asked them to offer available facilities and expertise to civilians during the covid 19 crisis.

Now, he’s also directed the army chief and local commanders, that they must reach out to Chief Ministers and offer all possible help. This, of course, is coming in as the country deals with an unexpected number of cases. Give us more details on how the defense minister hopes this will work going forward.

The country undergoing an unprecedented crisis. We know that each day the number of triggers of COVID-affected patients is going high. And in this regard, the army is also ready to help and serve the nation and defense minister Rajnath Singh. He has also directed the DRDO for opening up and establishment of hospitals with maximum capacity is in Gujarat or Lucknow or Delhi.

Now he has talked to the Chief of Army General Naravane. And he has directed that he must coordinate with all the Army Hospital all the facilities all over the country so that the civil population can be served in the time of pandemic and yesterday also there was a major update. Our local defense minister had assured Shivraj Singh Chouhan
that the army hospitals in Madhya Pradesh will be open for civilians during the pandemic because this is an unprecedented time.

And each day, the number of COVID patients figures are alarming. So the army is also serving and it is prepared to serve all the people of the nation. Be it in the terms of the treatment by its staff, by the military hospitals. We know that in Delhi the DRDO facility is already working and it is being commanded by the assistant DGAFMS Major General SS Bhatia, who is the commanding officer.

We have officers, we have doctors from the army, the paramilitary staff from the army is also taking care of the patients. So to enhance this facility all over the country and how the army can contribute during this crisis. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has not only coordinated but he has directed the Chief of Army Staff and also the defense secretary that how the army establishments can be used to help the civil population all over the country.