The Delhi Disaster Management Authority has asked senior officials of health and revenue departments and district magistrates to ensure compliance to the order “in letter and spirit”.
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The state government has requested centre to provide 700 to 800 ICU beds
Amid soaring Covid-19 cases in the Delhi, city s Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said that hospitals in the national capital are running in short of ICU beds. He said that the government has requested Centre to provide 7,000 ICU beds. We have demanded 7,000 beds in Central government-run hospitals, they have given us around 2000, news agency ANI quoted Jain as saying.Â
He added that there is a grave Oxygen crisis in Delhi for last few days and thaked the Centre for increasing Delhi s quota. It is making allocations to all states. Delhi s quota was less than requirement, they increased it now. If crisis is resolved in a day or 2, number of beds will be increased, Jain said.
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A health worker takes a swab sample to test for COVID-19 at a government hospital in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi.
In view of the pandemic situation in the national capital, 14 private hospitals have been declared as full COVID hospital and wouldn t be allowed to admit any non-COVID patient. These hospitals would cumulatively provide 3,553 beds for COVID treatment. The hospitals will also be allowed to temporarily increase their bed capacity up to 35 per cent, the Delhi government informed on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Delhi recorded as many as 17,282 fresh coronavirus cases, the sharpest daily spike since the outbreak of the pandemic. With this, the tally of COVID-19 cases in the national capital has reached over 7.67 lakh, while the death toll mounted to 11,540. One hundred four fatalities have been recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the latest bulletin issued by the Delhi health department.