Lack of trained staff puts question mark on setting up Covid centres at sugar mills

By virtue of their location in rural areas, sugar mills normally play important roles in the fight against Covid. (Representational)

LACK OF doctors and other trained medical personnel have put a brake on the Maharashtra Sugar Commissioner Shekhar Gaikwad’s instructions to sugar mills to set up dedicated Covid care centres on the mill premises.

Concerned over the spread of Covid-19, former Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar had asked sugar mills to set up Covid care centres and beds with ventilators within their premises. Following this, the sugar commissioner also issued orders asking…