Govt Adds 2,894 Beds, CM Says Upto 2k More Coming In 2 Days

NEW DELHI: Amid reports of acute shortage of beds, oxygen, and medical infrastructure in Delhi’s hospitals as the fourth wave of the pandemic batters the Capital, the Delhi government on Sunday night issued orders to add 1,979 Covid ward beds, 219 ICU beds with ventilators, and 696 ICU beds without ventilators in a desperate attempt to ramp up bed capacity even as the Railways, Centre and MCDs have been asked to deploy more beds and medical infrastructure to deal with the pandemic.

In addition to this, based on hospital visits of CM Kejriwal, Dy CM Sisodia and Health Minister Satyendar Jain, another 6,000 Covid care beds will be coming up soon at the Chatarpur Sardar Patel Covid Centre and Hospital, the Yamuna Sports Complex in the CWG village and in schools across the city that are being converted into care facilities.

In fact, on Sunday evening, CM Kejriwal visited one school in Rouse Avenue, which will be the first to be converted into a care centre. The CM said that all three of these large care centres will add 1,500 oxygen beds in the city in the next two days. The CM said it is expected that the DRDO facility in Dhaula Kuan will start 250 beds from Monday.