Delhi: Covid care centre at IGI by next month

NEW DELHI: A dedicated Covid care centre is expected to become operational at IGI Airport early next month, with a Memorandum of Understanding signed by airport operator Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) and Medanta Hospital.
The facility, to be set up at Terminal 2 of the airport, will consist of 15 paediatric high dependency unit (HDU) beds, 18 adult HDU beds and 52 isolation wards, officials claimed. The care centre will initially be available to airport staff and their family members, with passengers to be admitted in emergency cases.
DIAL said the centre is expected to be ready by September 2021 and is being set up with necessary healthcare facilities for its employees and their kin, including children. “Last year, we saw a number of cases where airport staff needed to be admitted to hospitals, and so this is a quick solution to that problem. In the future, the facility may be thrown open to passengers too,” the official added.
Airport officials said the state-of-the-art healthcare facility will help isolate, clinically treat and support asymptomatic, mild and mild-to-moderate Covid positive employees of GMR or their family members, till they are transferred to a hospital or discharged to their homes.