Covid-19: Delhi gets more than 11,000 beds in private hospitals

The Delhi authorities has notified 19 private hospitals the place 80 per cent of ICU beds are to be reserved for Covid sufferers, 82 private hospitals with 60 per cent reservation and 101 private hospitals the place 60 per cent ward beds are to be reserved for Covid remedy.

The 101 hospitals the place 60 per cent beds will likely be reserved for Covid sufferers embrace main names comparable to St Stephens Hospital, Max East/West Block, Batra Hospital, HAHC Hospital, BLK Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute, Max SS Hospital, Patparganj; Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla, Indian Spinal Injury Centre, Vasant Kunj, Dharamshila Narayana Hospital, Shanti Mukand Hospital, Fortis SS Hospital, Vasant Kunj, Shree Agrasain International Hospital, Madhukar Rainbow Children Hospital, Primus Super Speciality Hospital, Delhi Heart and Lung Institute, amongst others.

This mobilisation offers a further 5689 Covid ward beds to the Delhi authorities to deal with the brand new wave of Covid circumstances.

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It will mobilise 633 ICU beds from 82 hospitals the place 60 per cent ICU beds are to be reserved for Covid sufferers.

Another 765 ICU beds will likely be mobilised from 19 private hospitals the place 80 per cent of ICU beds are to be reserved for Covid remedy.

The Delhi authorities mentioned in an order that the mattress capability devoted for Covid wants to achieve the November, 2020 ranges.

At current, occupancy of Covid ICU beds has reached 100 per cent in virtually all giant private hospitals and more than 85 per cent in 57 out of 115 private hospitals. Similarly, the occupancy of Covid beds has reached 85 per cent in 32 out of 115 hospitals and 100 per cent in all giant hospitals.

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Designating 14 giant private hospitals as fully-Covid will give the Delhi authorities 1135 ICU beds and 3202 ward beds.

So, in all 8891 Covid beds are being added and 2533 ICU beds are being added in the Delhi authorities order.

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