Hospital beds free up as Covid cases continue to fall in Delhi

At Lok Nayak Hospital, Delhi government’s biggest Covid facility with 2,000 beds, almost 1,487 beds are vacant. At GTB, 1,310 out of 1,500 beds are vacant. Similarly, 342 beds out of 500 at Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital are unoccupied.

“The trend has once again changed over the last one week. Daily admissions are going down and bed availability is going up. Since the caseload was higher a few weeks ago, we have patients admitted to ICUs only,” said Dr BL Sherwal, medical director of Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital.

However, a few private hospitals like Max Super Specialty at Saket, Sir Ganga Ram, BL Kapoor, Max, Shalimar Bagh, still have high bed occupancy.

On Saturday, Health Minister Satyendar Jain had said the situation in Delhi has improved. “The Covid-19 situation in the city is far better now as compared to September, and daily cases have also begun to show a downward trend… the situation in Delhi has also stabilised,” he said.

Meanwhile, the city performed 50,832 tests on Sunday.