Sardar Patel COVID Centre Sees Desperate Patients Queue up Outside Even Before It Opens
Officials said that many patients and other people who had gathered outside had not registered themselves for the mandatory pre-admission assessment, hence they could not be allowed in.
The facility was opened to accommodate the large number of cases in Delhi. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: Chaos prevailed outside the Sardar Vallabbhai Patel COVID-19 Care Centre (SPCCC) here as a huge crowd of desperate patients and their attendants gathered at the facility for getting admission even before it began operating this morning.
Located at the Radha Soami Beas campus in the Chhattarpur area of south Delhi, the facility has been opened in view of Delhi registering a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, a shortage of oxygen beds and its healthcare system getting overwhelmed.
The Motera stadium has been renamed to Narendra Modi stadium
New Delhi:
The surprise renaming of the revamped Motera cricket stadium in Gujarat after Prime Minister Narendra Modi today caused a flood of reactions on social media. The largest cricket ground in the world was launched by President Ram Nath Kovind and has a capacity of 1,10,000.
What was earlier referred to the Motera Stadium or the Sardar Patel Stadium will now be called the Narendra Modi stadium. The stadium will be a part of the planned Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sports Enclave in the city.
Amid controversy over the renaming, the government said the name change involves only the Motera Stadium and the entire sports complex continues to be named after Sardar Patel.
Gurbachan Jagat
Seven decades are but a blip in the history of a people and the nation they strive to build, but can change the direction of the ‘march’ a march which began with the clarion call of ‘we have a tryst with destiny…’ in 1947 at the Red Fort. What we have witnessed in the last decade appears to be a complete change in the approach to the political, economic, social and parliamentary system in the country. The change appears to have happened so fast that it is almost unbelievable. However, has it been so fast? Or have we been sleeping while the seeds of corruption, nepotism and greed for power, sown in the 1970s and 1980s, have finally caught up with us and allowed a very determined political, social organisation to unilaterally present to the country a new polarising ideology.