Ganga Ram hospital seeks more time to convert Taj Mansingh hotel into COVID-19 facility

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital has sought more time to convert five-star Taj Mansingh hotel into a coronavirus facility in order to increase number of beds for patients in Delhi amid a spike in infections.

According to an order issued by sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) of Chanakyapuri on June 16, rooms in luxury Taj Mansingh hotel in Lutyens' Delhi were placed at disposal of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) for using it as an attached COVID-19 facility.

According to sources at hospital, a letter has been sent to SDM seeking more time to develop hospital into a COVID-19 facility.

Jivitesh hotel has also been placed at disposal of SGRH and will be rey as a COVID-19 facility within this week, sources said.

At Taj Mansingh, hospital has been given eighth, ninth and tenth floors and it has to work out logistics and train hotel staff in wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), maintaining hygiene. etc., y ded.

sources said hospital will take some time as arrangements will have to be me for routes to bring patients and demarcating areas for staff where patients will t come.

It will take ar 10 days for SGRH to set up COVID-19 facility at hotel since logistics like how to procure oxygen cylinders, staff and how biomedical waste will be disposed will have to be worked out, y ded.

hospital is facing a staff crunch and will have to accommodate its staff for COVID-19 facilities at two hotels.

national capital recorded 3,000 fresh coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking city's COVID-19 tally near 60,000-mark, while death toll due to disease increased to 2,175, authorities said.

It was third consecutive day that number of cases touched or went past 3,000 in Delhi. On Saturday, city h witnessed 3,630 COVID-19 cases, highest single-day spike here. On Friday, number was 3,137.

As many as 63 fatalities due to disease were reported in last 24 hours. death toll from coronavirus w stands at 2,175 in national capital and number of cases at 59,746, according to a latest Delhi health department bulletin.