Delhi: World’s largest, 10,000-bed Sardar Patel’s COVID Care Centre and Hospital (SPCCCH) at Radha Soami Satsang Beas in Chhatarpur area was made operational in Delhi, the national capital.
Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Anil Baijal, inaugurated the facility which has been created in an emergency mode by the South Delhi District Administration with support of the Ministry of Home Affairs in a record time of 10 days.
Notably, this coronavirus treatment centre which is set up in Chhatarpur area of the national capital is said to be the “largest” of its kind in the world.”The Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre and Hospital has been developed to help the citizens of Delhi and NCR who are affected by the coronavirus. Our team of doctors and medical staffs will take care of this facility.India’s biggest Covid-19 treatment facility with 10,000 beds at the campus of Radha Soami Satsang Beas in south Delhi’s Chhatarpur will start
admitting patients from Sunday.
Talking about the facilities at the new coronavirus centre, Baijal further stated, “We have counsellors for mentally traumatised patients. We have a team of good psychiatrists and specialists in medicine.”
The facility will function as an isolation centre for mild and asymptomatic COVID positive patients. 10 per cent of the beds will have oxygen facility in case the patient develops severe breathlessness and requires tertiary hospital care, read a statement.
Operationally, the facility has been linked to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital and Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital. The referral tertiary care hospitals are Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital and Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital.
ITBP will be running the first 2,000 beds with their 170 doctors/specialists and more than 700 nurses and paramedics, the statement added.Most of the basic infrastructure such as beds, mattresses and linen has been donated by various civil society organisations and non-governmental organisations.
The Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre and Hospital (SPCCCH) will function as an isolation centre for mild as well as asymptomatic patients of coronavirus.
“This facility has been created to provide stress-free and mindful isolation to the patients,” a government release said.
It has been linked to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital and Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital. And its referral tertiary care hospitals are Lok Narayan Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital and Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital.
PNN/Agencies