New Delhi, Apr 26 (UNI) The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) run Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre and Hospital in South Delhi’s Chhatarpur got operational on Monday morning. Currently, the centre is operating with 500 oxygen supported beds which is set to increase in coming days.
The ITBP has deployed 60 doctors,120 paramedics and 100 security and administrative staffs to man this hospital and care centre. In an official statement, the ITBP said, all the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the admission of patients to the Oxygenated 500-bed facility at the SPCCC “will be strictly followed and all laid down protocols will also be adhered to”.
“Patients will need to be referred by respective District Surveillance Officer (DSO) of respective Delhi Districts. No walk in admission will be made,” a senior ITBP official told UNI.
Here oxygen would be given via oxygen concentrators and oxygen cylinders, the official added.
As per the protocol fixed for the admission, the ITBP said, patients would require to first report at the reception, after initial documentation, their physical examination will be done and then they would be admitted to the care centre at their allotted bed. “A kit will be provided to them after their admission,” it added.
All medical treatment, medicines, food and other facilities will be provided free of cost, the ITBP said, adding that services of stress counsellors will also be provided to the admitted patients.
In view of alarming number of Coronavirus cases in the National Capital, the Delhi Government had requested for medical officers and paramedical staff from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to man the Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre at Chhatarpur, the Union Home Ministry has designated Indo- Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) as ‘Nodal Force’ for operating the facility on April 22.
This Covid Care Centre was set up on July 5 last year when Coronavirus cases were reported on a large scale in Delhi and NCR region and had treated over 11,657 were treated in seven and half months.
