28 hospitals of Army, Air Force, Navy earmarked to treat COVID-19 patients

Published On 2020-04-01 10:54 GMT   |   Update On 2020-04-01 10:54 GMT

New Delhi - Twenty-eight hospitals of Army, Air Force, and Navy across the country have been earmarked as COVID-19 hospitals. This is done to handle and treat coronavirus cases, which is part of the measures by the defence forces to help the civil authorities.Read Also: Pakistan reports its first medical casualty to coronavirus in 26-year-old doctorLieutenant General Anup Banerji, DG, of...

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New Delhi -  Twenty-eight hospitals of Army, Air Force, and Navy across the country have been earmarked as COVID-19 hospitals.

This is done to handle and treat coronavirus cases, which is part of the measures by the defence forces to help the civil authorities.

Read Also:  Pakistan reports its first medical casualty to coronavirus in 26-year-old doctor

Lieutenant General Anup Banerji, DG, of Armed Forces Medical Services, shared this development.

Separately, five hospitals of the three defence services can carry out testing for COVID-19.

These include Army Hospital Research and Referral, Delhi; Command Hospital Air Force, Bangalore; Armed Forces Medical College, Pune; Command Hospital Lucknow; and Command Hospital Udhampur.

Six additional hospitals are also being equipped with the resources to begin such testing.

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