BSF Enhances COVID-19 Medical Care Facilities for Serving, Retired Personnel
Ten oxygen beds each at two BSF COVID care centres located in Chhawla (southwest Delhi) and Tigri (south Delhi) of the national capital been created.
The BSF has bolstered its COVID-19 medical set up for its serving and retired personnel with the creation of 20 oxygenated beds at its hospitals and is "in the process" of setting up two small plants for producing the life-giving gas, officials said on Wednesday. Ten oxygen beds each at two BSF COVID care centres located in Chhawla (southwest Delhi) and Tigri (south Delhi) of the national capital have been created recently, an official spokesperson said. Out of these beds, he said, two have bipap (a non-invasive medical therapy) facility while four have ventilators. Apart from these, 40 standalone oxygen beds have also been created at these two camps where the BSF serving and retired personnel as well as their family members can be admitted and treated by doctors and para-medical staff, he said. The new facilities have been created as there was an "unprecedented surge in coronavirus infection cases." "BSF personnel, both serving and retired, along with their famili…