New Delhi 

The Delhi government had converted the Yamuna Sports Complex into a dedicated COVID-19 care centre for women and their children amid rising infections in the national capital.

Rajat Jain, Chairman of the Doctors for You organisation said, "The Yamuna Sports Complex has been transformed into a mother-child health care centre. We have made a pediatric play area here for the COVID-19 infected children". 

 

According to Dr Jain, a COVID-19 positive mother, who is not very serious and has just been advised isolation, can be accommodated in the make-shift hospital along with her child. "It's very difficult and challenging to keep a child behind closed doors for 10 to 12 days. Doing so would also harm their mental state. So, we at the Yamuna Sports Complex COVID-19 centre have created an environment so that the children do not feel that they are in hospital. It has also been noticed that children in a happy environment recover faster", added Dr Jain.

 

During the second wave, there were 800 beds in the Yamuna Sports Complex centre. "As the Delhi government saw an increase in cases due to Omicron, we have made this COVID-19 centre operational. There are a total of 100 beds operational at present with 50 double beds and another 50 single beds", added the doctor. Double beds are for a mother with her 4 to 5 year-old-child. The other beds would be made functional in another 48 hours, added Dr Rajat Jain.

 

Given the devastating oxygen crisis in the second wave of the pandemic, special attention is being given to oxygen facility at the complex.

 

"Four 500-500 LPM oxygen plants are at the Yamuna Sports Complex which can produce up to 2,000 LPM oxygen. So we can address oxygen to 300 beds by this. Besides this, there are cylinders and concentrators. Other 200 oxygen cylinders have been refilled", the doctor said.

 

"A very serious patient would require a maximum of 10 LPM quantity oxygen while a moderate COVID-19 patient would require 5 to 6 LPM of oxygen. Therefore through this oxygen plant, we can cater to as many as 400 patients," Jain said.

 

He also said that the Yamuna Sports Complex COVID-19 centre has been attached with GTB hospital. Serious patients would be shifted to the GTB hospital for treatment.