The Centre will reserve 10% beds at all its hospitals in the national capital for dengue and chikungunya patients, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on said after meeting Union Health Minister J P Nadda.
Jain said there will be 1,000 extra beds for dengue and chikungunya patients at the government-run hospitals in Delhi.
The city health minister said that for the convenience of patients coming from NCR region, he has suggested Nadda to ask Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to set up fever clinics so that people don’t have to come to Delhi hospitals.
“In the meeting, I demanded reservation of 10% beds at all Centre-run hospitals including AIIMS, RML and Safdurjung for treatment of dengue and chikungunya patients.
Nadda ji has agreed to it following which there will be additional 1,000 beds at Centre-run hospitals,” the Delhi Health Minister told reporters here after meeting Nadda.
Chikungunya and dengue continued to wreak havoc in the capital with the death toll from the two vector-borne diseases climbing to 30 till yesterday even as the number of affected people crossed 2,800.
On Thursday, Jain had written to the Union Health Minister requesting him to convene a meeting of the health ministers of the neighbouring states in order to prepare a strategy to deal with dengue and chikungunya “outbreak” as many of the patients are coming to Delhi due to “lack” of proper healthcare facilities there.
“In view of most patients coming from NCR, I have requested Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to set up fever clinics.
