Odisha Govt. Construct COVID-19 Warriors Memorial at Biju Patnaik Park

Bureau,Odishabarta

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Government will construct COVID-19 Warriors Memorial at Biju Patnaik Park here to keep alive the memory of the supreme sacrifice made by them. The proposed memorial will be inaugurated on Independence Day. The Works department has been assigned the job of constructing the structure.

Many people, including health workers, police personnel, teachers and sanitation workers have laid down their lives while working as frontline workers during the pandemic. COVID-19 is once in a century pandemic and in order to keep it (sacrifice) in the memory of people as well as to recognise the sacrifice and service rendered by the COVID-19 warriors who have lost their lives fighting the pandemic, the Government has decided to construct a COVID-19 Warrior Memorial, Health and Family Welfare Additional Chief Secretary Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra said.

Odisha DGP Abhay said 48 police personnel have laid down their lives while fighting against the pandemic. He said police personnel had also donated the highest number of plasma units for the treatment of critical COVID-19 patients. The police personnel form 46 per cent of the total plasma donors in the State, he said.

The DGP said there are 2,166 plasma donors in Odisha of which 1,002 are from Odisha Police. The first plasma donors of Odisha Police are two members of Odisha State Armed Police 3rd Battalion, Koraput. They donated plasma at SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack on 24 July 2020, the DGP said.
As police personnel are listed as frontline COVID-19 warriors, their vaccination drive began in the second phase on February 6.

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