Isolation ward with 200 beds at corpn hosp

New Delhi: To enhance its Covid bed capacity, North Delhi Municipal Corporation has started converting a newly-constructed block at Balak Ram Hospital, Timarpur, into a 200-bed isolation ward.

“The departments concerned have been told to fix the pending work and check supply of water and electricity in a phased-manner. I visited the place last week and asked the officials to clean the site, arrange for beds and ensure clean washrooms. Based on the requirement, arrangement for oxygen cylinders will be made,” said Jai Prakash, mayor, north corporation.

Before Balak Ram Hospital, the civic agency aims to open a 50-bed isolation ward at Saraswati Vihar (Rohini) primary school and another at Hudson lane polyclinic. It will provide guards, sanitation staff, water, electricity and tie up with NGOs for medical facilities.

“We will inaugurate the facility at Saraswati Vihar on Tuesday. Here, with the help of NGOs, we have even arranged for ventilators and oxygen cylinders. All the three places will be empanelled with Hindu Rao Hospital, and if some patients turn serious, they will be taken to the hospital. We target to create beds for 8,045 people in the isolation wards,” said Prakash.

In east Delhi, the municipal corporation claimed to have readied seven community halls and transferred them to the district magistrate (DM) for providing medical facilities like beds, oxygen ventilators and medical staff. East Delhi Municipal Corporation mayor Nirmal Jain said they were contacting the DMs regularly for close co-ordination on the project.