Delhi private hospitals roped in to isolate international arrivals from ‘at-risk’ countries

Lok Nayak Hospital had been declared the designated centre for all such cases and it has set aside 100 beds for this purpose. Now, the Delhi government is roping in private hospitals for the same.

Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, had been directed on December 1 to establish a separate isolation unit. Since then two of the patients admitted there have been confirmed as Omicron cases.

The Delhi government has also directed Batra Hospital, Fortis Super Specialty Hospital, and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital to set up separate isolation wards for such patients on payment basis “in order to augment the capacity of institutional isolation facility in the private sector for Covid positive international passengers who have travelled from or transited through the countries classified as ‘countries at risk’”.