Guwahati railway station gets 21 Covid Care Coaches amid shortage of hospital beds

GUWAHATI: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Railway) has deployed 21 Covid care isolation coaches at the Guwahati Railway Station to facilitate treatment to COVID-19 patients.

These Covid care isolation coaches are equipped with essential medical facilities which can provide necessary medical aid to patients infected with the deadly coronavirus.

On the other hand, another 20 rail coaches, which will work as Covid Care Centres, have been deployed at Guwahati, Badarpur, Lumding, Tinsukia and Bongaigaon railway stations. These coaches are equipped with 350 oxygen beds.

Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases in Assam, the state has been facing immense shortage of hospital beds to accommodate COVID-19 patients.

On Wednesday, the Assam government had urged the NF Railways to prepare 150 Covid Care Coaches at various locations across the state.

It may be mentioned that the Indian Railways is undertaking deployment of Covid Care Coaches at places of demand by the respective states on a war footing manner.

The railways have made a fleet of nearly 4,000 isolation coaches with almost 64,000 beds to serve as isolation units across the states.

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Meanwhile, Assam’s COVID-19 death toll rose to 1,531, as the state witnessed 46 more deaths due to coronavirus infection, over the past 24 hours.

On the other hand, 4,936 fresh COVID-19 positive cases took the tally to 2,77,687, while the active caseload mounted to 31,829. The current positivity rate in the state is 8.04 per cent.

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