New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the AAP government what arrangements it has made for patients suffering from COVID-19 who may be critical and require to be shifted to care homes or centres.
The query was posed to the Delhi government by a bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramanium Prasad, during hearing of a PIL seeking increasing the COVID-19 testing numbers in the city, after the petitioner said he could not get a bed in any private hospital or nursing home near his home and had to be accommodated in a friend''s clinic at Dwarka here where he was on oxygen support.
The bench said the petitioner, advocate Rakesh Malhotra, was one of several thousands of people in the city who are "struggling for treatment and finding beds in hospitals and nursing homes" and asked the Delhi government whether it has made "adequate arrangements for patients suffering from COVID-19 who may be critical and those who would require to be shifted to care homes".
The court said "people are running helter-skelter without knowing what to do" and there are small children and elderly people who are very susceptible to the infection.
It said everyone was struggling to find beds in hospitals and even the judges were receiving calls from several quarters requesting their help in getting admitted to hospitals.