Delhi to get 7 super-speciality hospitals, be developed right into a world-class medical hub, says CM Rekha Gupta

Seven under-construction ICU hospitals, commissioned by the earlier Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) authorities throughout the pandemic, can be become super-speciality medical amenities, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta mentioned on Monday. She added that every facility can be geared up to deal with circumstances of a selected nature, reminiscent of most cancers, high-risk deliveries, and transplants, which require superior medical experience.

Ms. Gupta mentioned Delhi’s healthcare sector is present process “main transformations” and on the way in which to changing into a “world-class medical hub for individuals from India and overseas”.

Speaking on the inauguration of a non-public hospital in north Delhi’s Model Town, the CM mentioned, “By creating the seven hospitals into super-speciality medical amenities, we’re making certain that not a single rupee spent by the federal government goes to waste.”

Ms. Gupta mentioned throughout the pandemic, when AAP was in energy, the “shortage of hospital beds led to lack of lives”. “At one level in Delhi, the town had solely 0.42 hospital beds per 1,000 residents and simply six MRI machines and 12 CT scan machines, which is unimaginable for a metropolis of this scale,” she mentioned.

Security for devotees

The CM additionally mentioned the federal government will guarantee a “safe and comfy” Kanwar Yatra for devotees and that the police will take strict motion towards these discovered creating obstacles for pilgrims. Her feedback come a day after the police detained an e-rickshaw driver following the invention of glass shards on a street alongside the pilgrimage route in north-east Delhi’s Shahdara, elevating issues over the protection of the pilgrims strolling barefoot.

Mired in controversies

The earlier AAP authorities had introduced the development of the seven “makeshift ICU hospitals” in September 2021 to create 6,800 beds within the Capital over six months. Two of those have been to be arrange close to present medical amenities — Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya and GTB Hospital — and the remaining in Sarita Vihar, Raghubir Nagar, Shalimar Bagh, Kirari, and Sultanpuri.

In 2022, Lieutenant-Governor V.Ok. Saxena had ordered a probe into allegations of irregularities in awarding tenders for the undertaking.

On June 26 this 12 months, the Delhi authorities’s Anti-Corruption Branch registered an FIR towards AAP leaders and former Health Ministers Satyendar Jain and Saurabh Bharadwaj over “irregularities” within the undertaking. The company alleged that the “₹1,125-crore ICU Hospital Project stays solely 50% full after practically three years and expenditure of ₹800 crore regardless of an preliminary six-month completion timeline”. In response, AAP had dared the Delhi authorities to make the small print of the case public.