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.

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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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