32 CAPF hospitals to treat Covid patients

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 26

As India wages a war against Covid, the Central Government has decided to turn 32 hospitals for paramilitary forces with 1,900 beds into isolation wards.

Officials in the Ministry of Home Affairs said the 32 hospitals were operated by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) in Greater Noida, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Jammu, Tekanpur (Gwalior), Dimapur, Imphal, Nagpur, Silchar, Bhopal, Avadi, Jodhpur, Kolkata, Pune and Bengaluru.

The officials said the decision to take over these “composite hospitals” of the forces was taken at a high-level MHA meeting chaired by the Secretary of Border Management.