NEW DELHI - Delhi has set up one of the world's largest Covid-19 care facilities, hoping to reinforce its loosening grip on a worrying outbreak of the disease in the city.
With one estimate suggesting that the number of Covid-19 cases in Delhi could touch 550,000 by the end of July, the need to augment treatment and isolation facilities has become a key priority. In a video statement issued on June 27, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal acknowledged that patients had been shunted from one hospital to another because of the lack of beds at the start of June but said the situation had vastly improved . He said the city has a current capacity of 13,500 beds, of which only 6,000 are occupied.
Many feel that Delhi has seen a surge in cases because of poor contact tracing, lack of adequate healthcare workers and conflicting orders from the state and federal governments, among other reasons. Dr Mahesh Chandra Misra, the former director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, said people who had returned from overseas in March were"let loose" in big cities such as Delhi with poor tracing.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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