The Delhi Government will strengthen doorstep delivery of services and set up 6,836 ICU beds in its six hospitals, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday.
The Delhi Cabinet approved the budget for the Health Information Management System (HIMS) project and decided to award Rs 130 crore tender to a private company M/s NEC Corporation India Private Limited, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday.
“The project had been awarded to a company after cabinet approval and the budget was also sanctioned for the same.” “All the hospitals of Delhi will be brought under one platform; all information will be available at the tap of a button and that there will be no need to stand in queues after HIMS is implemented; doctors will give appointments on the phone, patients will be able to select time as per convenience,” said Kejriwal.
Kejriwal said that Delhi Government is working on war footing to implement the project and project awarded and budget sanctioned.
Delhi Cabinet also approved another project of 6,836 ICU beds in seven hospitals. These beds to be built in Sarita Vihar, Shalimar Bagh, Sultanpuri, Kirari, Raghubir Nagar, GTB Hospital and Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalya.
“Delhi governments’ hospitals have 10,000 ICU beds; after increasing 6800 beds, the capacity of ICU beds will increase by almost 70 percent,” Kejriwal said.
“If the Covid wave comes, then people will get help in treatment, if the wave does not come, then the new beds will be ready for the people of Delhi permanently,” he added further.
According to Delhi government official, 1430 beds will be added in the Shalimar Bagh Government Hospital, 458 at the Kirari Government Hospital, 1912 at the GTB Hospital, 1565 beds in Raghubir Nagar, 610 beds at CNBC, Geeta Colony, 525 beds at the Sultanpuri hospital.These beds will be ready in six months.
To ramp up the health infra in Delhi, the city government has pumped in rupees 1,216.72 crores for the project.