Shah, Kejriwal visit 10,000-bed COVID-19 facility to review arrangements

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visited the Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre to review the preparedness at the facility, which will hold 10,000 beds when complete. As of now, 2,000 beds have been made operational at the centre.

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday visited the newly created 10,000-bed Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre at Radha Soami Satsang Beas at Chattarpur in South Delhi.

The two leaders reviewed the arrangements at the sprawling facility, where 2,000 beds have already been made operational, and work is on to increase the capacity to 10,000.

The facility on the Radha Soami Satsang Beas campus in the Chhatarpur area will have two wings -- a COVID care centre where asymptomatic positive cases will be treated and a dedicated COVID healthcare centre

The Covid-19 centre is being developed under the Union Home Ministry's supervision to meet the beds shortage amid the rise in the number of novel coronavirus cases in Delhi.

Of the 77,204 cases reported in the national capital, 27,657 are active cases and 2,492 people have died.

The operation of this centre, including the availability of adequate medical personnel, has been entrusted to the central armed police forces, led by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).

While the Delhi government has been providing all administrative support, the Radha Soami Beas provides the campus, housing and other infrastructure as well as food. The Centre's bed capacity may rise to 10,200. It will be the largest Covid-19 care facility in India.

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More than 1,000 doctors, nurses and paramedic staff of the ITBP and other paramilitary forces have been deployed at the facility. An additional 1,000 paramedical, assistant and security staff have also been posted there.

The centre will have two segments - COVID care centre, where asymptomatic cases will be treated, and the dedicated COVID health care.

The COVID care centre will account for 90 per cent of beds while the dedicated COVID health care will have the rest 10 per cent of beds. More than 75 ambulances will be deployed at the centre.

(With inputs from agencies)