The Doctors are now frustrated with the way Delhi government is working as they are opening more and more Covid care facilities and there are more than 9,000 Covid beds which lie vacant in hospitals. The Doctors have questioned the governments focus on creating more beds as there is a shortage of ICU beds with ventilators of which less than 300 are currently unoccupied.
According to TOI, A Doctor in a government hospital said that no one knows how much money is being spent on hiring so many banquet halls and renting cots, mattresses and pillows and when it comes to saving crucial life saving equipment’s like ventilators the government buys the cheap ones that cannot function as they are meant to work.
It is also reported that most beds in hotels are empty and Delhi has been promised a 1,000-bed facility with 250 ICU beds that are being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and a 10,200 bed facility, of which 10% will be equipped with oxygen support to be operated by ITBP.
A senior government doctor said that the Delhi Government want to operationalise its 1,250 bed hospital in Dwarka, a 600 bed facility in Ambedkar Nagar and a 772 bed hospital in Burari, he questioned the govt that why don’t they work on it instead of spending on temporary facilities.
