Amid surge in cases, AIIMS Delhi earmarks 2 beds each in its 12 depts for critically ill Covid-19 patients

“Seriously ill Covid-19 patients with comorbidities etc, requiring inpatient hospitalisation, will be admitted to the C-6 ward under the concerned clinical department/unit,” said an order issued by Medical Superintendent Dr Sanjeev Lalwani.

He added that these earmarked beds will be treated as an extension of the emergency ward beds and accordingly all clinical departments, whose patients are admitted to these beds, will be required to shift their patients to any other vacant beds of their department/unit within 48 hours failing which their routine admission will be temporarily blocked.

The earmarking of specific bed numbers as above may reduce beds of a particular department in which two or more units exist. The order added that in such departments, it will be the responsibility of the concerned department head to redistribute the unit beds temporarily in such a way that bed reduction does not affect only one unit.

Covid-19 cases in Delhi have been on the rise again with a positivity rate of over 25 per cent being recorded over the last two weeks. On Sunday, Delhi recorded 948 fresh Covid-19 infections and two deaths with a case positivity rate of 25.69 per cent, according to data shared by the health department.