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With the surge in the COVID-19 cases in India, the healthcare sector comprising doctors, paramedical staff and pathologists are working tirelessly to save human lives. It is, therefore, the responsibility of the society to offer them necessary support.Under its CU-AID Campaign, Chandigarh University with the support from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India has delivered 500 liters of hand stizer and face masks to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.The alcohol-based hand stizer has been prepared by the students and staff members of the University Institute of Applied Health Sciences (UIAHS) at Chandigarh University.Officials of Chandigarh University along with Dr Rashmi Sharma, Scientist 'E', DST, Government of India handed over the 500 liters of hand stizers and face masks to Dr Nand Kumar, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS, New Delhi while another University team handed over 100 liters of stizer to Punjab Police personnel at Khanna."The 70 per cent alcohol-based hand stizer prepared by Chandigarh University which has been handed over to us at AIIMS Campus today matches the prescribed standard of stizers used in hospitals and we would be using it for the protection and hygiene of our paramedical staff, security personnel and housekeeping staff at AIIMS who are working under distress condition of COVID-19 outbreak," said Dr Nand Kumar, while expressing his gratitude towards the CU-AID Campaign.Another team headed by Dr Pawan Kumar, Scientist 'E', DST, Government of India and Chandigarh University officials handed over 100 liters of hand stizer to Punjab Police officials at Khanna.Harpreet Singh, SSP Khanna, Jagwinder Singh, SP Investigations and Shamsher Singh, DSP Headquarters were handed over the stizers prepared by the students and staff of UIAHS."We thank the team of DST and Chandigarh University who have given us hand stizers in such a short notice and it will boost the morale of our police personnel who are working day and night in serving the common man during such a crisis," said SSP Khanna, Harpreet Singh."DST had given a call to compes, universities and research Institutes to work on technologically driven innovative solutions like low-cost stizers, masks, scanning devices, rapid diagnostic kits and ventilators," said Dr Pawan, Scientist, while giving details about the hand stizer production and distribution project jointly undertaken by DST and Chandigarh University."Students and researchers of Chandigarh University have made rich contributions under the SYST Scheme of DST (Scheme for Young Scientists & Technologists) during the COVID-19 crisis in India," Dr Pawan added.Earlier one of the research scholar of University Centre of Research & Development (UCRD) at Chandigarh University, Professor Ranvijay had designed two-way, three-way and four-way splitters to overcome the shortfall of ventilators in India with quickest possible time.Meanwhile, the University continues to distribute free hand stizers and face masks to poor, needy and residents of villages in Mohali under its CU-AID initiative and have already distributed 3500 liters of stizers till date."The students and research scholars are already working on various research projects that can contribute during the COVID-19 crisis and on-going efforts will further get boost as the University has announced a budget of Rs 5 crores exclusively to work on coronavirus related research," said Satnam Singh Sandhu, Chancellor, Chandigarh University.This story is provided by PRNewswire. will not be responsible in any way for the content of this article. (/PRNewswire)( With inputs from ANI )

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