<span style="color: #222222;">Punjab Government has added 79 new private hospitals to the list of tertiary care centers for providing COVID-19 treatment in the 5 most-affected districts of the state and these hospitals have started providing services to Covid19 patients.<br />'' <br />'' Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said that the inflow of patients in severe conditions is higher in districts Amritsar, Ludhiana, SAS Nagar (Mohali), Jalandhar, and Bathinda.<br />''<br />''He said that patients are getting free-of-charge treatment in all the Government hospitals and critical patients who are referred to private hospitals from government facilities are also being treated free of cost by the state government. </span><br />