Delhi govt: Install CCTVS in COVID-19 wards of all designated hospitals

NEW DELHI: The Health and Family Welfare Department of the Delhi government has now issued an order directing all designated hospitals to install CCTV cameras in their COVID-19 wards within 24 hours, according to the order issued by the Principal Secretary for Health in Delhi. The order came swiftly within hours of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s surprise visit to Delhi government’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital (LNJP) on Monday evening.

Shah had on the visit, directed the Delhi Chief Secretary to install CCTV cameras in COVID-19 wards of every designated hospital in the national capital for proper monitoring, and set up alternative canteens for uninterrupted supply of food to the patients.

The Home Minister had also suggested psychosocial counselling of doctors and nurses engaged in the service of humanity through fight against Coronavirus.

Shah directed the Delhi Chief Secretary to install CCTV cameras in COVID-19 wards of every Coronavirus-designated hospital, so that there is proper monitoring and problems of patients can be resolved, a home ministry statement said.

Shah also directed the chief secretary to establish alternative canteens so that in case there is an infection in one canteen, patients continue to get food without disruption.

He said psychosocial counselling of doctors and nurses engaged in service of humanity through the treatment of COVID-19 patients should also be done.

This will ensure that not only are they physically but also psychologically fit to fight the pandemic, the statement said, quoting Shah.