Question : Patients Treated by DRDO Hospitals

(a) the total number of patients treated by hospitals set up by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) during the 1st and 2nd wave of the Corona pandemic;

(b) the number of make-shift hospitals set up by DRDO during the second wave, their locations and the respective bed capacities along with the number of patients each hospital had catered to;

(c) whether DRDO has a strategy/ protocol to deploy these makeshift facilities of treatment and isolation in the event of another wave and if so, the details thereof;

(d) whether DRDO is working on any protective technology or medicines similar to that used during 2020 and 2021 in the fight against COVID-19; and

(e) if so, the details thereof?

MINISTER OF STATE (SHRI AJAY BHATT)
IN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

(a) Patients treated during 1st wave – more than 4000.
Patients treated during 2nd wave – more than 7000.

(b) (i) 11 Nos.
(ii) Bed Capacities of hospitals are as under:-

S.No. Location Bed Capacities Patients Catered during 2nd wave
of Corona Pandemic

(1) Delhi Cantt 750 1684
(2) Srinagar 500 979
(3) Jammu 500 319
(4) Lucknow 500 471
(5) Haldwani 500 86
(6) Rishikesh 500 574
(7) Ahmedabad 900 1723
(8) Guwahati 300 1101
(9) Varanasi 750 514
(10) Imphal 200 --
(11) Gandhi Nagar 900 --

(c) Yes, Sir. The protocol has been developed, documented and multiple vendors are engaged for carrying out the task, whenever and wherever it is needed. The infrastructure including maintenance is kept in readiness and hospitals could be made operational within a week.

(d) & (e): Yes, Sir. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) facility for genomic characterization of SARS-CoV-2 variants has been established at DRDE, Gwalior.

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