Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced that all the government hospitals in the national capital will be reserved for the residents of Delhi due to lack of hospital beds and surging of coronavirus cases.
According to the health ministry, a patient should have important documents that include Aadhar card, bank account, post account, Farmer account or passbook to get admitted to state-run hospitals.
Currently, five hospitals are run by the Delhi government, while 13 hospitals are private, and only four are under the Centre.
As per the reports, the decision was based on the findings made by a five-member expert panel formed by the Delhi government, which warned that the state will have over one lakh cases of COVID-19 by the end of June and would require 15,000 additional hospital beds by the end of the month. The committee added that if the government opens up hospitals for non-residents, all beds will be occupied within three days.
Documents required for COVID-19 treatment in Delhi government hospitals:
According to the state government, a person is required to submit any one of these documents:
- Delhi’s voter ID
- Bank Account details
- Farmer Account
- Post Office Account
- Current Passbook
- Ration Card
- Driving license
- Income tax papers
If a person does not have any of these documents, in that case, electricity bill or water bill is mandatory.
Delhi CM on June 2 has launched an app on which shows the number of available beds for COVID-19 patients in hospitals. According to Kejriwal, the app was launched to stop the black marketing of beds.
The opposition party attacked the Kejriwal government in over the app due to false information about the beds.
Congress leader Anil Chaudhary, taking it to Twitter wrote, “While the Delhi government app showed that Max Hospital had 80 vacant beds, a screen at the hospital showed that no beds were available”.
दिल्ली सरकार के ऐप के मुताबिक़ मैक्स अस्पताल में 80 बेड ख़ाली है, परंतु अस्पताल के स्क्रीन में कोई बेड ख़ाली नहीं दिख रहे है ।@ArvindKejriwal जी अब आप बताएँ की झूठ कौन बोल रहा है, अस्पताल वाले या आपका ये ऐप ?
मरीज़ इधर से उधर परेशान है कोई इलाज नहीं हो रहा है ।@ndtv @aajtak pic.twitter.com/Aw5jOiIzXd
— Anil Chaudhary (@Ch_AnilKumarINC) June 2, 2020
Delhi is among the worst-hit states by the coronavirus pandemic. India witnessed a huge spike in daily coronavirus count with 9,983 people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. The capital state added over 1,300 cases even on Sunday. The total number of coronavirus cases in the national capital surged to 27,654. There were 16,229 active coronavirus patients in Delhi. Maharashtra witnessed over 3,000 COVID-19 cases in a day for the second time since the outbreak and has the highest number of coronavirus cases in India.
