NEW DELHI : Ramping up capacity to handle more coronavirus patients, the Arvind Kejriwal government has declared small and medium multi-speciality nursing homes in Delhi as 'COVID nursing homes.
The order applies to those with 10 to 49 beds but nursing homes meant for eye, ENT, dialysis, maternity homes and IVF centres have been exempted."In order to avoid intermingling of COVID and non-COVID patients in small and medium multi-speciality nursing homes (10 bedded to 49 bedded) and also to augment the bed capacity for COVID-19 patients, all nursing homes in NCT of Delhi having bed strength of 10 beds or more up to 49 beds are declared as COVID nursing homes," Delhi government order said.All such nursing homes have been asked to make their.