The world's largest COVID-19 facility is now ready in the national capital with a total of 2,000 beds being made operational. The Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre and Hospital at Radha Soami Satsang Beas in Chhatarpur is 10 times larger than China's largest COVID facility.
The facility, which will have 10,000 beds, will function as an isolation centre for mild and symptomatic coronavirus patients.
Ten per cent of the beds will have an oxygen facility in case the patient develops severe breathlessness and requires tertiary hospital care.
South Delhi District Magistrate BM Mishra said that 10 per cent of the beds will have oxygen facility and the beds are made of cardboard.
¡°The facility is state of the art, artificially cooled as per the opinion of medical experts. We are using e-hospital software of NIC with over 350 computers and over 100 tablets. The admission to discharge all processes is electronic and staff nurses shall also use tablets to fill in routine examinations and reports of patients,¡± an official told news agency PTI.
Most of the beds, linen and mattresses have been donated by various civil society organisations and non-governmental organisations.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police will be running these 2,000 beds with their 170 doctors and specialists, and more than 700 nurses and paramedics.
The facility will be scaled upwards depending on the requirement of isolation beds in Delhi.
The total number of coronavirus cases in Delhi have surged to a figure over 77,000, according to the data released by the ministry of health and family welfare.