: Coronavirus: Delhi government seeks help of Indian Army to set up, run medical facilities #IndiaNEWS Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has sought help from the Indian Army to set up and

Coronavirus: Delhi government seeks help of Indian Army to set up, run medical facilities #IndiaNEWS
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has sought help from the Indian Army to set up and run coronavirus health facilities in the national Capital, the Hindustan Times reported on Monday.Sisodia wrote to Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for setting up and manning about 10,000 non-intensive care unit beds with oxygen support and 1,000 ICU beds. “Since the entire health infrastructure machinery is overwhelmed with the management of the existing hospitals and the upcoming Covid hospitals, it will be a timely help to the people of Delhi if the ministry of defence, with the considerable resources at its command, is tasked with the responsibility to provide and man the additional Covid health facilities as per the current projections,??? Sisodia wrote.Delhi is currently reeling under the second wave of the coronavirus. The national Capital is facing a scarcity of medical oxygen and is dealing with a shortage of beds to admit coronavirus patients. On Sunday, at least three Delhi hospitals had sent out desperate pleas for oxygen as their stocks of the life-saving gas dwindled. On May 1, 12 patients, including a doctor, had died in the city’s Batra Hospital after oxygen ran out for more than an hour at the private facility.Currently, there are 16,272 non-ICU oxygen beds and 4,866 ICU beds in...Read more

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