New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): World’s largest, 10,000-bed Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre and Hospital (SPCCCH) at Radha Soami Satsang Beas in Chhatarpur area of the national capital has made operational on Sunday.
Inaugurated by Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Anil Baijal, the facility has been created on an emergency basis by the South Delhi District Administration with support of the Ministry of Home Affairs in a record time of 10 days.
Notably, this coronavirus treatment centre which is set up in Chhatarpur area of the national capital is said to be the “largest” of its kind in the world.
“The Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre and Hospital has been developed to help the citizens of Delhi and NCR who are affected by the coronavirus. Our team of doctors and medical staffs will take care of this facility. Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre and Hospital will have 10 per cent of beds with oxygen facility,” the Delhi LG said after the inaugural.
Talking about the facilities at the new coronavirus centre, Baijal further stated, “We have counsellors for mentally traumatised patients. We have a team of good psychiatrists and specialists in medicine.”
The facility will function as an isolation centre for mild and asymptomatic COVID positive patients. 10 per cent of the beds will have oxygen facility in case the patient develops severe breathlessness and requires tertiary hospital care, read a statement.
ITBP will be running the first 2,000 beds with their 170 doctors/specialists and more than 700 nurses and paramedics, the statement added.
Most of the basic infrastructure such as beds, mattresses and linen has been donated by various civil society organisations and non-governmental organisations. A recreational centre has been made available to the patients along with a library, board games and skipping ropes. People admitted to the facility will be provided five healthy meals a day along with immunity-boosting chawanprash, juices and hot kadha, the statement added.
21 patients admitted at Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre in Delhi on day 1 of operations
A total of 21 patients were admitted at the Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre and Hospital at Radha Soami Satsang Beas in Chhatarpur area of the national capital on Sunday, on day one of its operations.
According to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), the patients were admitted at the facility till 7:30 pm and the condition of all the patients is stable. The facility will function as an isolation centre for mild and asymptomatic COVID positive patients.
Operationally, the facility has been linked to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital and Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital. The referral tertiary care hospitals are Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital and Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital, according to a statement. ITBP will be running the first 2,000 beds with their 170 doctors/specialists and more than 700 nurses and paramedics, the statement added. (ANI)
30 ITBP doctors deployed at Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre and Hospital at Radha Soami Beas in Delhi
A team of 30 freshly inducted doctors of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have been deployed at the Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre and Hospital at Radha Soami Beas in Chattarpur. These doctors have been deployed at the centre as their first posting in service.
“We are extremely proud to be serving the nation at the time of COVID-19 crisis. We will put our best efforts to save the country and its people,” said Sagardeep Grewal, Assistant Commandant, Medical Officer, ITBP.
World’s largest, 10,000-bed Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre and Hospital (SPCCCH) at Radha Soami Satsang Beas in Chhatarpur area of the national capital was made operational on Sunday.
Inaugurated by Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Anil Baijal, the facility has been created on an emergency basis by the South Delhi District Administration with support of the Ministry of Home Affairs in a record time of 10 days. Notably, this coronavirus treatment centre which is set up in Chhatarpur area of the national capital is said to be the “largest” of its kind in the world. (ANI)
