Amid the continuous covid-19 surge in Delhi, Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Sunday said that more 400 ICU beds have been added to faciliate the covid-19 patients in the city much to the relief of the state govt.
The health minister said that the new addition of the beds is the part of state’s 1,650 bed insfrastructure which aim to set up 250 beds in private hospitals, 650 in Delhi government facilities and 750 in centre-operated hospitals.
The health minister assured that more beds will be added soon.
According to a government official, 9 ICU beds were added on Tuesday, 100 on Wednesday, 76 on Thursday and 206 on Saturday.
The developement comes days after chief minister Arvind Kejriwal met with home minister Amit Shah to discuss the covid-19 management strategy in the national capital amid the third wave of infections.
Earlier, in a press breifing, the Delhi CM had said that the government has directed private hospitals to reserve 80 per cent of ICU beds for covid-19 pateints. He had also asked the hospitals to postpone the non-critical surgeries for a while.
Meanwhile, Jain said thar he spoke with municiapal corpration regarding the limited burail space as the death cases spike in the city.
They have assured that adequate measures are being taken and there will be no problem in conducting the last rites of those dying due to COVID-19,” he said.
Meanwhile, Delhi reported 121 more fatalities son Monday, continuing its over 100 deaths per day for the last one week now. With 6,746 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, the total number of cases in the state has reached 5,29,863,