New Delhi: Budget RS 1,544 Crore approved on Friday in the Emergency Covid response package for 2021-22 to make Delhi fight against a stronger pandemic.
The budget, okay in a cabinet meeting chaired by the Chairperson of the Minister of Arvind Kejriwal, will be spent on various steps, including increasing testing and laboratory, supply supply, mobilizing additional human resources, improving hospital care facilities, and managing care centers.
Kejriwal said that as a responsible government, the Delhi government took all the necessary steps in the war against Covid.
“After the possibility of the third covid wave, the Delhi government tried his best to strengthen the health and readiness system at each level,” he said.
During the meeting at the Delhi Secretariat, the Cabinet agreed that Novelcorona’s virus infection was not over.
“Thus, in this fight against Covid-19, there should be no doubt in connection with the control and prevention of Covid-19 deployment,” the government said in a statement.
Emphasizing the need for the package of the country itself to fight Covid, Minister of Health Satyendar Jain said the government of the centrality will “head to Covid to protect the people of Delhi.
This package will then increase resource management in Delhi and proved important in the emergence of future waves”.
Under the package, the government allows expenditure for all short-term and long-term activities to manage Covid.
Of the total budget, RS 415 Crore will be used to strengthen testing and laboratories and 445 crore rs for the procurement of inventories.
The RS 280 Crore budget will help improve health facilities and hospitals and RS 125 Crore will help the management of the Covid Care Center.
Experts anticipate the third wave of Covid cases in India.
The Delhi government has formed a state-level task force under state nodal officers and several task-based sub-committees to prepare for the management of the possibility of the third wave.
The government also strengthens health infrastructure to make high-quality care accessible by all.
A total of 6,836 ICU beds will be added in seven hospitals in Delhi, taking total capacity in the city to 17,000.
New beds will be arranged in Sarita Vihar, Shalimar Bagh, Sultanpuri, Kirari, Raghubir Nagar, GTB and Chacha Nehru Hospital.
The government said the hospital was made independent in terms of oxygen.
The PSA oxygen plant was being established in a government hospital to reduce their dependence on outside facilities and let other hospitals refill oxygen cylinders during an emergency.
During the last wave, oxygen demand in Delhi increased and many hospitals must deal with severe shortages.
To ensure that such a situation does not appear in the future, the Kejriawal government installed 73 PSA factories with a capacity of 77.80 MT in a government hospital.
All plants will be assigned at the end of November.