New Delhi: With the number of beds occupied by patients infected with Covid remaining very few, many hospitals in the city are waiting to continue normal medical services again.
The Super Rajiv Gandhi Hospital managed by the Delhi government said that in January only had 15 covid patients although the city registered a high number of cases.
“Even these patients have recovered.
None of them had to stay for more than seven days.
Now, the designated bed Covid lay empty.
We slowly start regular and elective medical services because there is no point in keeping other patients detained .
Get rid of several beds, it’s time for other services to continue in full way, “said a senior hospital official.
At present, Lok Nayak Hospital, the largest facility under Delhi’s administration, has 70 covid patients.
However, Shehnai Banquet Hall, which was operated by the hospital, lay empty.
“We have enough beds in the main building.
Elective surgery will be continued.
Some non-covid services, such as the Gynae department, and important operations are ongoing.
OPD services have begun,” said Dr.
Suresh Kumar, Medical Director, Lok Nayak.
At present, there are around 1300 covid patients received in private and public hospitals.
A senior official from the Delhi Health Department The government said they were working on the descaling of the capacity of the bed provided for covid patients.
There are 11 state-run facilities for Covid-19 patients, including Indira Gandhi, Burari, newly opened GTB, Lok Nagar, Ambedkar Nagar, Rgssh, Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Deep Chand Bandhu, Dr.
Baba Saheb Ambedkar, Janakpuri Super Specialization and Sanjay House Gandhi’s memorial pain.
An official from Bandhu Chand Deep Hospital said regular services were not completely canceled in remembering critical and emergency cases.
“Many people come to hospital quoting other health complications.
During the RT-PCR test, they showed covid-positive, so the beds were mostly occupied by them.
At present, we have around 20 patients.
The only problem we face is The scarcity of health workers is because many of them are infected in the past month.
There are shortcomings of staff to care for patients, “the official added.
Previously, when the third wave peaked, the Delhi government issued an order to order at least 40% of beds for Covid-19 patients in all private hospitals and nursing homes.