New Delhi: With the surge in coronavirus cases, the Delhi Government on Sunday declared Bara Hindu Rao Hospital run by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) as a designated COVID-19 hospital.Vikram Dev Dutt, Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare department of the Delhi government wrote a letter to the Medical Superintendent of Bara Hindu Rao Hospital asking him to make all hospital beds available to admit COVID-19 patients by June 16.
The hospital has around 1,000 beds."In view of the projections of a surge in COVID-19 cases and the necessity of augmenting bed capacity urgently, in the exercise of powers under Delhi Epidemic COVID-19 Regulations, 2020 and The Epidemic Act, 1897, Bara Hindu Rao Hospital running under North.