Lok Sabha Question No. 1637 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-11
Subject: Patients Treated by DRDO Hospitals
Ministry: DEFENCE
Asked by: Anil Firojiya, Brijbhushan Sharan Singh, P.P. Chaudhary, Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Sangamlal Kadedin Gupta

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF DEFENCE DEFENCE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1637

TO BE ANSWERED ON 11 TH  FEBRUARY, 2022

## PATIENTS TREATED BY DRDO HOSPITALS

1637.  SHRI ANIL FIROJIYA:

SHRI BRIJBHUSHAN SHARAN SINGH:

SHRI P.P. CHAUDHARY:

SHRI PRATAP CHANDRA SARANGI:

SHRI SANGAM LAL GUPTA:

## Will the Minister of DEFENCE

be pleased to state:

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

## A  N  S  W  E  R

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

- (a)  Patients treated during 1 st wave - more than 4000.

Patients treated during 2 nd wave - more than 7000.

(SHRI AJAY BHATT)

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

| S.No.   | Location     |   Bed Capacities | Patients Catered during 2 nd 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 | --                                                     |

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