At around 5 pm on April 26, a Facebook user from Noida posted an urgent appeal for help in securing a hospital bed or a trained nurse for her father whose oxygen levels were fluctuating. Within the hour, her post had generated sympathy, advice and several leads, including contact numbers of doctors at the Covid Care Centre at Commonwealth Games Village at Delhi’s Akshardham.
Helpful, verified leads came from the Facebook page “Covid Community Delhi/NCR - Information Facts Support” that was set up to crowdsource information about Covid at the beginning of the pandemic when few knew much about the virus.
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CM visits polyclinic to mark symbolic beginning of drive
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A health worker sanitises a vaccination centre at Guru Gobind Singh Hospital in the Capital on Saturday. | Photo Credit:
Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
CM visits polyclinic to mark symbolic beginning of drive
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday visited a polyclinic at Saraswati Vihar to mark the symbolic beginning of the vaccination drive for citizens aged between 18 and 44 years.
“In one way, today is symbolic as vaccination drive for those between 18 and 44 years has started only at one centre from today. We have already received 4.5 lakh vaccines and now we are distributing them in all districts,” he said.
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As Covid patients die for want of hospital beds and oxygen, are there any immediate solutions to overcome the crisis? How can we save people from dying due to lack of health facilities? The only way is to increase the number of hospital beds, deploy a large number of trained medical professionals and ensure an adequate supply of oxygen and to do all of this almost overnight. It looks impossible, but healthcare workers on the ground say, “If there is a will, there is a way.” According to them, the deluge of patients is not so huge that our healthcare system cannot treat them by quickly putting in place a parallel health infrastructure to take the load away from existing hospitals.
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The COVID-19 care centre has the facilities of mobile toilets, coolers and WIFI connection.
Delhi logged 24,638 fresh COVID-19 cases and 249 deaths on Wednesday (April 21).
New Delhi: Amid increasing demand for hospital beds and oxygen in the UT, the Delhi government, in association with the Sant Nirankari Mission, has set up a temporary COVID-19 centre with 1000 beds.
In view of the deteriorating COVID-19 situation and shortage of hospital beds, medical oxygen in the national capital, the Arvind Kejriwal-led government has built a temporary COVID-19 centre with 1000 beds and a supply of medical oxygen to all. The centre is likely to become operational till the coming Saturday.