Delhi to Open World’s Largest COVID-19 Facility on July 1

Dated July 03, 2020

In our current pandemic situation where hospitals are running out of beds, and private hospitals are charging a huge amount for COVID-19 treatment, South Delhi’s Radha Soami Satsang Beas is all set to open the world’s largest COVID-19 facility for around 10,000 patients on 16,50,000 sq ft of land.

In order to handle the rapid increase in Delhi’s COVID-19 cases, this facility will be beneficial. With 10,000 beds and 18,000 tons of air conditioning, it will be the largest Coronavirus Facility in the World. Mud floor is bare and the ceiling is having slow-rotating fans which will provide a slow breeze to the patients. The Satsang ground has been taken over by the Delhi Government which is almost the size of 22 football fields. Delhi Government has also planned to add 15,680 more beds by taking all the banquet halls, auditoriums, and other public facilities but this plan is not confirmed yet.
Earlier, Railway coaches were converted into COVID-19 facility. According to the latest statement, 500 more railway coaches will be converted into 8000 COVID-19 Beds.
The 10,000-bed facility will be divided into three sections: the largest section will be for patients while another will be for doctors and nurses and the remaining, for commanding.
There will be 116 sections with 88 beds in each section. For the first day, around 2000 beds will be ready and the entire facility will be operational from the first week of July.
As to the facilities, every bed will have a chair, table, utensils, toiletries, charging point, water bottle, and other necessities. Food for the patients will be served by the Satsang Members as the Satsang is capable of making meals of 300,000 people a day. Food will be rolled to the patients with the help of trolleys. One thing which needs to be rectified is that there will be one ceiling fan in between three beds. As the beds will be quite distant from each other, the fan will be of no use.
Coming to the sanitation, six hundred-odd toilets with 70 portable toilets have been made. Three toilets for physically challenged personnel are also there. According to them, more toilets will be arranged by that time. For now, the aim is around one toilet for ten patients.
Admission of relatives of patients into the facility is strictly prohibited. Relatives are suggested to send the patients via ambulance or if they hand over the patients, they will have to hand them over outside the gates. Admission and Discharge of Patients will be strictly based on an app developed by National Informatics Centre.
For making phone calls, patients will avail of the facility of landline calls. MTNL has been asked to provide landline and internet connection and a telephone tower.
Most importantly, there will be a consumption of 1.7 lakh liters of water per day. For that, the Delhi Jal Board will check with the water department.
In this tough time, it is good to see that everyone is helping in some way or the other by taking great initiatives and contributing in any way that the community can.