The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)-run Covid Care Centre in South Delhi’s Chattarpur, has been equipped with 150 ventilator beds for coronavirus patients requiring critical care.
The ventilators were provided to the Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre (SPCCC) by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) from the PM-CARES fund early this month.
“Around 150 GPS-based ventilator beds have been made functional. This will be in addition to the 500 oxygen beds which are already functional at the centre.
The ventilators are being used to provide critical care to the patients infected with coronavirus. About 10 patients have been admitted today,” said Vivek Kumar Pandey, the Public Relation Officer (PRO) of the ITBP.
Inspector General (IG) of the force Anand Swaroop, who is responsible for the functioning of the SPCCC, visited the ventilator ward and reviewed the arrangements with doctors and senior officers manning the facility.
The centre began operations on April 26 after the Delhi Government requested the Union Government to operationalise the facility at the Radha Soami Beas campus in Chattarpur area in view of the rapid increase in Covid-19 cases.
According to data updated till Wednesday, a total of 1,223 patients have been admitted at the SPCCC till now, out of which 935 have been discharged.
“At present, 200 beds are occupied at the centre and hundreds of patients who were critical have been given anti-viral treatment here and their oxygen levels have improved after proper medical care was provided to them,” said the PRO.