Train coaches now COVID centres

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Train coaches now COVID centres

Thursday, 09 July 2020 | PNS

Train coaches now COVID centres

In view of providing additional healthcare facility to the people of Delhi NCR, on demand of the State Government, Northern Railway is providing 503 isolation coaches as Covid Care Centers. Rajiv Chaudhry, General Manager Northern and North Central Railways, informed that these isolation coaches have the facility of 8,048 beds and are placed at nine different stations of Delhi area — Anand Vihar Terminal, Shakurbasti, Delhi Sarai Rohilla, Safdarjung, Delhi Shahdara, Adarsh Nagar, Delhi Cantt, Badli and Tughlakabad. All these stations have good infrastructure for maintaining these coaches. A total number of 49 patients have admitted at Shakurbasti Covid Care Center so far out of which 21 have been discharged, shifted or transferred till date and 28 are still under treatment.

Features of the isolation coaches: In a unique bid to create additional quarantine facilities to bolster the country’s limited healthcare infrastructure, Indian Railways decided to convert its ICF non-AC sleeper coaches into quarantine wards. This is deemed as a good and cost-effective interim measure to provide medical care and isolation facility in view of the rising COVID-19 cases.

Like other zonal Railways, Northern Railway is diligently working to modify some of its train coaches into patient isolation wards. The Railway workshops have converted 540 coaches into quarantine facilities till now. A single coach will be able to accommodate as many as 16 patients at a time.

In the modified coaches, an Indian style toilet on one side of the coach has been converted into a bathroom, while space for paramedics has been created on the other side. Each compartment has been installed with additional electric ports for plugging medical equipment. Oxygen cylinders have also been provided, windows have been covered with mosquito nets and additional fans have also been fitted.

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