Some Delhi hospitals seeing increase in admission of non-Covid patients as cases decline

Non-Covid patients are increasingly returning to private hospitals in Delhi to undergo elective surgeries that had been put on hold due to the raging pandemic,

With coronavirus cases declining in the national capital, some private hospitals here are seeing an increase in non-Covid patients returning to medical facilities and conducting elective surgeries that were put on a backburner due to the raging pandemic. Delhi has been reeling under a brutal second wave of the pandemic that is sweeping the country, claiming a massive number of lives daily, with the recent oxygen supply shortage issue at various hospitals, adding to the woes. Since April 19, both daily cases and single-day death count had been spiralling up, with over 28,000 cases and 277 deaths recorded on April 20; rising to 306 fatalities on April 22. On May 3, the city registered a record 448 deaths, according to official data.