Walk-in admissions, free-of-cost treatment at Chhatarpur Covid centre for all: ITBP

Sunit Dhawan
Tribune News Service
Rohtak, May 20

Here is some good news for the Covid patients from Haryana and other states in the vicinity of the national capital: The 500 oxygen-bedded Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre (SPCCC), established on the premises of Radha Soami Satsang Beas at Chhatarpur in New Delhi, which is being managed by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), is open for the Covid patients from all states.

“The Covid-Care Centre and Hospital is well-equipped with ventilators, oxygen concentrators and medicines required for the treatment of Covid-19. It serves the patients who require oxygen support and provides walk-in admissions and treatment to all Covid-affected residents completely free of cost,” said ITBP Director-General S.S.Deswal while talking to The Tribune today.

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs had mandated the ITBP to provide doctors and paramedical staff for the centre. The centre started functioning on April 26 and has admitted 1,223 patients till May 19, of whom 935 have been discharged.

As of now, around 200 beds are occupied at the centre. Oxygen supply and medicines are being provided for the patients admitted at the centre by the Delhi administration.

“Services of stress counselors from the ITBP are being provided to the patients admitted at the centre,” the Director-General said, adding that yoga and meditation sessions are also organized daily.

It may be pertinent to mention here that the ITBP had established and managed the world’s largest 10,000-bedded Covid-Care Centre and Hospital at Chhatarpur during the first wave of pandemic, wherein more than 12,000 patients had been treated.