Indo-Tibetan Border Police takes over Covid Care Centre in South Delhi's Chhattarpur

The Home Ministry, had on June 23, nominated the ITBP as a nodal agency to provide doctors and team of other professionals to this Centre on request of the Delhi government.

Many teams of the ITBP, including medical and administration, visited the Radhaswami ashram today and held series of discussions with all stakeholders.

“It is expected that a 2,000-bed facility will be operational at the center from June 26. The total bed capacity may go up to 10,200. This will be the largest single Covid Care Centre in the Capital and the country”, the ITBP officials said.

It is expected that more than 1,000 doctors of ITBP and other CAPFs and 2,000 more paramedical, assistant and security staff will be deployed at the facility to operate, they added.

South Delhi District Administration will provide administrative support to the Centre.

The decision to make a 10,000-bed Covid Care Centre in Delhi was taken after the spurt in the Coronavirus cases in Delhi despite several steps taken to contain this deadly disease.

In a series of review meetings with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Health Ministry officials from Delhi Government and Central Health Ministry, the Union Home Minister Amit Shah took a slew of measures to contain this disease on a war-footing.

Mr Shah also informed on Tuesday that apart from this facility, a 1,000 bed full-fledged hospital with 250 ICU beds is also been being prepared by the DRDO and Tata Trust.

It is noteworthy to mention that the premier border guarding force was the first Central Armed Police Force which was entrusted with make a first 600-bed makeshift quarantine center in Delhi at Chhawla camp on January 31 this year when the first two batches of 112 evacuees and 110 evacuees from Wuhan in China were housed in this quarantine centre on February 1 and 2.

ITBP Chhawla centre had quarantined 1,200 evacuees from various parts of the world.