With the decline within the variety of COVID circumstances within the metropolis, solely a handful of sufferers stay in short-term COVID care centres. While new admissions is not going to be allowed at these centres, medical tools akin to ventilators and oxygen cylinders shall be saved to be used in a potential third wave.
According to the Delhi Corona App, virtually all Kovid oxygen beds, ICU beds and ventilators are empty. On Sunday, 89 new Kovid circumstances had been reported in Delhi. Of the full 27,284 hospital beds reserved for COVID remedy, together with short-term COVID centres, 1,037 beds are presently occupied.
There is presently no covid affected person at Radha Swami Satsang Beas Center in South Delhi. The heart was began final yr with a ten,000-bed capability, and was manned by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). While it closed in February, the middle was reopened once more with 100 beds, which was later elevated as a result of a pointy rise in circumstances in April.
An ITBP spokesperson stated on Friday that the middle is presently vacant: “We are planning to close the place but are waiting for orders. We have to be prepared for the third wave so that we can keep this space open.”
The heart just isn’t presently admitting new sufferers.
In the 400-bed Covid facility on the Rakab Ganj gurdwara, which was commissioned in May, officers stated solely eight sufferers are left, officers stated.
Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee president Manjinder Singh Sirsa stated, “We now have six-eight Covid patients at the centre. Most have recovered and will be discharged soon. We will close the center once all the beds are empty. However, in the event of a third wave, our committee members will stockpile medical equipment.”
In North Delhi’s Burari, the place at the least 1,000 beds had been arrange on the Sant Nirankari Covid Care Centre, now solely 5 sufferers are admitted, and the group will shut down the middle quickly.
At the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Hospital in Delhi Cantt, a brief COVID heart arrange by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) in April, there are not any COVID sufferers now. The heart had put aside 500 beds.
“We are closing the centre. It’s been almost two weeks and we don’t have any new admissions. If the Covid caseload increases during the third wave then we will reopen the place,” stated a health care provider. The heart was run by at the least 50 officers and docs from the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) and the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF).
At Delhi authorities’s Burari Hospital, the place at the least 700 beds had been made out there for Covid remedy in the course of the second wave, docs stated they’ve now began reserving beds for non-Covid sufferers.
“Earlier, other wards were closed due to the Covid caseload, but now we are reopening emergency services. There are only 6-7 patients in the Covid ward,” stated a hospital official.
The Guru Nanak Eye Centre, which had arrange a 198-bed COVID facility in the course of the second wave, has additionally closed the ward. Officials stated the beds have been vacant for practically three weeks.
“We had ordered oxygen cylinders for Covid sufferers final month, however now there are none. From right here, now sufferers shall be referred to Lok Nayak or GTB hospitals. We will resume different companies quickly, an official stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
