Calls, Prayers Unanswered: Finding Bed Still A Long Haul

New Delhi: Even though the number of beds for Covid patients has been boosted significantly, finding one is still a worry for Delhiites. Two reality checks conducted by TOI in the past one month both exposed a wide gulf between the number of beds shown as available on the Delhi Corona app and actually accessible in hospitals. On Monday, calls to the medical facilities to check if the situation had improved went mostly unanswered.

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Some major Delhi and central government hospitals such as Lok Nayak, Guru Teg Bahadur, AIIMS Jhajjar, Satyavadi Raja Harish Chandra and AIIMS Delhi offered no response to numerous calls on the contact numbers mentioned on the city’s pandemic app. These hospitals are marked green on the app, signifying that they all have more than 50 beds for Covid patients, respectively, 1,260; 1,254; 817; 121 and 73.

There are 120 hospitals that are specified to manage Covid patients. On the app, 17 were marked pink (no beds) and 79 yellow (fewer than 50 beds). Lady Hardinge Medical College is the only central government hospital that shows zero beds on the app. The other 16 hospitals marked red are private institutions, among them Max Patparganj, Kalra Hospital and Primus Super Speciality Hospital.