NEW DELHI: With the number of dengue cases rising in the city, Delhi government has reduced the number of beds reserved for Covid-19 patients in private hospitals from 30% to 10%, apart from some big hospitals of its own.
The government said that it was keeping a close watch on the dengue situation.
The government said in a statement that 221 dengue patients were admitted in Delhi’s hospitals, out of which 42 were from other states. There is no shortage of hospital beds in the national capital, it stated.
The total number of Covid-19 patients admitted in hospitals is 188 at present. The government said that Covid positivity rate was 0.2% till June 17 but had come down to 0.06% by October 17.
“Due to decrease in Covid infection and increase in the number of the vector-borne diseases, the number of beds reserved for Covid patients in Delhi’s private hospitals has been reduced from 30% to 10%, apart from government hospitals like LNJP, where Covid beds have been reduced from 700 to 400,” it added.
Delhi’s health minister Satyendar Jain stated that the dengue situation in Delhi was completely under control and adequate numbers of hospital beds were available.
Patients from outside Delhi comprise 25% of the total number of patients admitted in the city’s hospitals, he said.
The government said that there was no need to panic and out of all the fever patients coming to Delhi’s hospitals, only 25% were testing positive for dengue and other fever patients being discharged from the hospital in a day or two.
It further said that dengue came under control in Delhi after the Arvind Kejriwal government launched the ‘10 Hafte, 10 Baje, 10 Minute’ campaign in 2019.
