Railway covid coaches serve as isolation, treatment wards for patients in Delhi

As many as 503 railway coaches, which have been prepared as isolation wards for coronavirus patients in Delhi, are stationed at different railway stations across the city. Till date 171 patients have been admitted into these coaches.

New Delhi: Some of the railway coaches that were prepared to isolate and treat COVID patients in the national capital have been parked at the Shakur Basti station here and as many as 171 COVID patients were kept in the temporary facility.

According to the sources, most of the patients have either gone home after fully recovering from the disease or shifted somewhere else. However, 99 of them are still recovering in these railway coaches, which have all medical facilities that are required to treat a coronavirus patient.

Railway officials said special coaches stationed at Anand Vihar could also be used anytime as they are fully ready to receive coronavirus patients. The capital city has 503 railway coaches, stationed at nine different places, including Delhi-Shahdara, Delhi Cantt, Aadrash Nagar, Badali and others.