Delhi government hospitals gear up to review Covid-19 preparedness

Delhi government-run hospitals carried out mock drills on Sunday to assess their Covid-19 preparedness, amid a spurt in the number of coronavirus cases in the city.
The Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital, which was a mainstay in the national capital›s fight against Covid-19, carried out a two-hour-long mock drill.

“We assessed the patient response time. When a patient is brought to the hospital, how long does it take for us to shift him to a room?

“For critical patients who need to be shifted to the ICU, we have a red corridor. We checked whether all the ventilators and oxygen points were functioning. We have around 450 beds for coronavirus patients,” Dr Suresh Kumar, the medical director of LNJP Hospital, told PTI.
The senior doctor said the bed occupancy at the LNJP hospital was zero in the last one month. The scenario has changed in the last few days, the doctor said. “A 54-year-old patient is on a ventilator. He has diabetes while another 36-year-old patient is on oxygen support. He is suffering from pneumonia,” he said. By afternoon, the mock drill had been conducted at other hospitals too, including the Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra Hospital (SRHCH).
“The mock drill lasted for about an hour.