On 12th June the Supreme Court had questioned
West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra & Delhi
on their handling of the rising coronavirus pandemic.
The Supreme Court said, that patients are given abysmal service for treament and were treated worse than animals.
In one case, a body was found in the garbage.
When patients die their corpses are not taken care of and completely ignored by the authorities.
The situation in Delhi is "horrendous, horrific and pathetic.
In a number of cases, Delhi is at the third position after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
There were headlines that there was a drop in number of testing per day from 7,000 to 5,000 in Delhi.
The Supreme Court had asked the Delhi government
that worst affected states like Mumbai and Chennai,
had increased their testing from 16,000 to 17,000.
So why is Delhi government reducing testing?
So far there have been about 38,000 cases of coronavirus in Delhi.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said,
looking at how the cases are increasing, by the end of July, there will be 5.5 lakh cases in Delhi.
Delhi would need 80,000 hospital beds.
Delhi is not prepared for this.
To control the COVID situation in Delhi, a meeting was held between
Home Minister Amit Shah, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan
and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on 14th June.
?????/The discussed the management of the COVID crisis in Delhi.
Amit Shah had tweeted some of the measures that would be taken to control the virus.
1. For the shortage of beds for Corona patients in Delhi,
the Central government has decided to immediately give 500 railway coaches.
These railway coaches will provide 8,000 beds in Delhi
these coaches will have all facilities such as
test kits, oxygen cylinders, ventilators
and pulse oximeters, that measure the level of oxygen.
2. The COVID -19 tests in Delhi will be doubled in the next two days
and tripled after six days.
????/Testing will be started at every polling station in each containment zone.
3. In containment zones, persons who are infected will be questioned
about those they came in contact with.
These persons will be traced, questioned and tested.
The report will be made in a week.
4. The Central government will form a committee of senior doctors at Delhi's famous AIIMS.
To help private hospitals follow guidelines.
It will be done through a help line number that will be announce soon.
5. A committee under the chairmanship of NITI Aayog member Dr VK Paul
will present its report to reserve 60% beds in private hospitals for COVID patients,
fixed treatment and testing costs. The cost of beds will be low as well.
6. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had tweeted that
that the Delhi government and Central government had a very productive meeting.
The Delhi government and Central government are united in fighting COVID-19.
7. Delhi needs about 80,000 beds and it currently has only about 20,000 beds.
The Delhi government has said that soon they will add 20,000 beds
in the hotels and banquet halls of the city.
???8. Last week, the Delhi government had ordered the hospitals run by the state government
to not treat non-residents of Delhi.
Pateints infected with COVID-19 and who aren't residents of Delhi, would not be allowed at the hospital.
Only residents of Delhi would receive treatment.
????Lieutenant (deputy) Governor Anil Baijal said,
has cancelled Delhi's government's order
infected patients will not be denied treatment if they are non-residents. This would spread the virus.
He scrapped the earlier decision and ordered all patients would receive treatment.