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HCL Foundation has announced setting up of 100-bed and 50-bed Covid-19 isolation and treatment units, respectively, at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital in partnership with the Delhi government.

The aim of the Foundation is to increase and enhance Covid-19 care facilities at various government hospitals to help manage the large number of infections in the national capital, the foundation said in a statement.

These facilities, including the child-friendly Covid-19 wards, were officially inaugurated by the LNJP Hospital Medical Director  Dr Suresh Kumar , Maulana Azad Medical College Dean Dr Nandani Sharma and HCL Foundation Director Nidhi Pundhir.

The Foundation also informed that it has committed to providing human resource support to the isolation and treatment unit at the two hospitals.

This includes hiring of and salaries for an agreed number of doctors, nursing staff, hygiene technicians, general duty assistants, supervisors, counsellors, ambulance personnel and administration staff, it said.

The foundation is also providing an ambulance with advanced life support and ventilator to LNJP dedicated to transportation of Covid-19 positive patients and isolation and treatment of over 1,000 Covid-19 mild-to-moderately symptomatic cases.

Wi-Fi, 40 smart TV sets, 10 desktops with printer, child-friendly isolation wards and furniture, supporting over 120 nursing, paramedical and medical staff are the other infrastructural support to the LNJP hospital by the foundation.