Icu Beds Delhi

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said it wanted to "help" the city government fix the state of its hospitals and not get into "blame game" but correct facts with respect to the ground reality must be placed before it.

A comparative study of all admitted COVID-19 patients in Max Healthcare hospitals suggests that during the ongoing third wave, occupancy of ICU beds and oxygen requirement is not higher compared to the prior two waves of the coronavirus infection.

At least 18,000 ICU beds and 28,000 oxygen beds will be required for COVID-19 patients if the daily cases rise up to one lakh in the national capital, the Delhi government has said.

The Delhi government has decided to increase 5,650 normal beds and 2,075 ICU beds for coronavirus patients in 14 hospitals, along with 2,800 beds in eight COVID-care centres, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Saturday.

The Delhi High Court Thursday asked the city government to apprise it of the position of COVID-19 new variant Omicron in the national capital, including how many patients are in ICU, on ventilator support and with oxygen beds in hospitals.

A total of 1,116 COVID-19 oxygen beds out of 12,104 are occupied in Delhi hospitals, while 72 ICU beds with ventilators have patients, with Health Minister Satyendar Jain saying the numbers do not mean that patients require oxygen/ventilator support.

Around 7,000 ICU beds will be added in government-run hospitals of the national capital in view of an impending third wave of COVID-19, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday.

Hospitals across Delhi have started ramping up infrastructure to ensure availability of essential equipment, drugs and ICU beds for children as part of their plan to tackle a possible third wave of the coronavirus.

Nabila Sadiq, a professor at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia university, tweeted an SOS on May 4 for an ICU bed. She did get one, but her lungs were too damaged by then. The 38-year-old died on Monday night.

A temporary 500-ICU bed facility has been set up at Delhi's iconic Ram Leela Maidan to help accommodate critically ill Covid patients hit hard by the virulent second wave of infections.

Delhi COVID-19, Arvind Kejriwal: There will be no shortage of ICU or oxygen beds in Delhi, Mr Kejriwal said Tuesday morning, a day after the opening of a 500-bed facility at the city's GTB Hospital in preparation of a likely third wave of Covid cases

Aam Aadmi Party MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj, who last month released a video appeal from his hospital bed in Delhi for medical oxygen for the central government and Haryana, today recalled the lessons he learnt while recovering from Covid.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is looking into the issue of pressing the service of Army to help set up hospitals with oxygen facilities and ICU beds to treat COVID-19 patients in the national capital, the Delhi High Court was told.

The Delhi High Court Monday directed the Centre to take instructions on the communication by the AAP government to the Union Defence Minister requesting the help of the Army to set up hospitals with oxygenated and ICU beds to treat COVID-19 patients

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday came to the aid of a woman, showing symptoms of COVID-19 and finding it difficult to get an ICU bed at government hospitals, by directing the AAP government to arrange a bed for her.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said it wanted to "help" the city government fix the state of its hospitals and not get into "blame game" but correct facts with respect to the ground reality must be placed before it.

A comparative study of all admitted COVID-19 patients in Max Healthcare hospitals suggests that during the ongoing third wave, occupancy of ICU beds and oxygen requirement is not higher compared to the prior two waves of the coronavirus infection.

At least 18,000 ICU beds and 28,000 oxygen beds will be required for COVID-19 patients if the daily cases rise up to one lakh in the national capital, the Delhi government has said.

The Delhi government has decided to increase 5,650 normal beds and 2,075 ICU beds for coronavirus patients in 14 hospitals, along with 2,800 beds in eight COVID-care centres, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Saturday.

The Delhi High Court Thursday asked the city government to apprise it of the position of COVID-19 new variant Omicron in the national capital, including how many patients are in ICU, on ventilator support and with oxygen beds in hospitals.

A total of 1,116 COVID-19 oxygen beds out of 12,104 are occupied in Delhi hospitals, while 72 ICU beds with ventilators have patients, with Health Minister Satyendar Jain saying the numbers do not mean that patients require oxygen/ventilator support.

Around 7,000 ICU beds will be added in government-run hospitals of the national capital in view of an impending third wave of COVID-19, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday.

Hospitals across Delhi have started ramping up infrastructure to ensure availability of essential equipment, drugs and ICU beds for children as part of their plan to tackle a possible third wave of the coronavirus.

Nabila Sadiq, a professor at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia university, tweeted an SOS on May 4 for an ICU bed. She did get one, but her lungs were too damaged by then. The 38-year-old died on Monday night.

A temporary 500-ICU bed facility has been set up at Delhi's iconic Ram Leela Maidan to help accommodate critically ill Covid patients hit hard by the virulent second wave of infections.

Delhi COVID-19, Arvind Kejriwal: There will be no shortage of ICU or oxygen beds in Delhi, Mr Kejriwal said Tuesday morning, a day after the opening of a 500-bed facility at the city's GTB Hospital in preparation of a likely third wave of Covid cases

Aam Aadmi Party MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj, who last month released a video appeal from his hospital bed in Delhi for medical oxygen for the central government and Haryana, today recalled the lessons he learnt while recovering from Covid.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is looking into the issue of pressing the service of Army to help set up hospitals with oxygen facilities and ICU beds to treat COVID-19 patients in the national capital, the Delhi High Court was told.

The Delhi High Court Monday directed the Centre to take instructions on the communication by the AAP government to the Union Defence Minister requesting the help of the Army to set up hospitals with oxygenated and ICU beds to treat COVID-19 patients

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday came to the aid of a woman, showing symptoms of COVID-19 and finding it difficult to get an ICU bed at government hospitals, by directing the AAP government to arrange a bed for her.