The North Corporation-run Hindu Rao Hospital was on Tuesday removed from the list of designated Covid-19 facilities in Delhi.

The Delhi Government's Health Department in an order issued on Tuesday said, Bara Hindu Rao Hospital was declared a designated hospital on June 14 in view of the surge in Covid-19 cases then.

"A request has been received from the Commissioner, North Delhi Municipal Corporation for converting the Bara Hindu Rao Hospital to a non-COVID hospital,” the order said.

"The matter has been examined and in view of the low average bed occupancy of the hospital and request received from the NDMC, the hospital is being removed from the list of designated COVID-19 hospitals with immediate effect," the order said.

The Delhi government on Saturday had ordered shifting of COVID-19 patients from the civic-run hospital to its own facilities.

The move to shift patients had come a day after the resident doctors of the hospital went on a "symbolic indefinite strike" over their salaries remaining unpaid for the past three months.

Seventeen patients were shifted to LNJP Hospital and three to Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital, while there in ICU were retained.

On Sunday, the sanitisation of the hospital had started, and  sources had said, the OPD of the 900-bed hospital was expected to be opened again to the regular patients in a few days.

A senior north Corporation oficial said that the Delhi Government is doing politics over the issue.

"DDMA has instructed the North Delhi Municipal Corporation via phone to transfer the patients to Delhi Government hospitals in view of the low number of patients at Hindurao Hospital and restore normal services at Hindurao Hospital," he said.

The official said that ever since the Hindu Rao Hospital was converted into a Covid-19 hospital, till date the Delhi government has not given a single penny for the Hindu Rao Hospital.