Field Hospital At India's Largest Football Stadium

The News Cover: salt lake stadium, will turn into a 250 bed, a covid hospital in a couple of days the youth hostel located in the stadium has been converted into a hospital. which will be manned by Amri hospitals, all beds, at the hospital are oxygen beds, with several ICU beds also available for the patients who need ICU care in India's largest football stadium. 

which has witnessed several historic football games is now all set to turn into a covid care center a field hospital for covid patients in Kolkata, we're at the salt lake stadium the Vivekananda o Yuva Bharati Srirangam, as it's called here and this is, of course, a stadium that is now being turned into a covid hospital. will be taken over by ambry hospitals as you can see it's been called. the amri hospital satellite center, and it'll house several covid wards, like this one now, of course, patients, who require care will be kept here you can see oxygen you know setups have been created.  

here all these cannulas have been set up, for oxygen, release so there will be oxygen piped oxygen supply, as you can see here and they will be given oxygen if they require one of the key requirements of treating covid patients at this point. is ensuring that they get oxygen in time, and if one can do that then a lot of patients don't require further critical care so obviously oxygenated beds are available at these wards. here at this field hospital but let's say if someone does require critical help, then what do they do well if a patient further deteriorates even after he gets oxygen support then they will be brought to this respiratory care unit where several other medical support systems are already in place and if I can show you.

the walls of course have pictures of India's sporting icons, and that is because this is still essentially a stadium that has been converted into a covid care center. these of course are several medical setups. you know that are required to treat covid patients, including monitors, and other you know devices that covid patients require oxygen cylinders also in place here. and this hospital is likely to be functional soon now Kolkata needs, to ramp up its capable capacity of hospital beds, given the fact that experts are predicting a massive surge in cases.  

after super spreader events during the elections but at this point, you can see the administration immediately after taking over the month of energy has, of course, indicated that she would be ramping up hospitals capacity to treat and tackle the covid. you know the crisis that the country, is facing which west Bengal expects also to be challenged by which is why several of these units have been set up. this is one of India's largest football stadium, the salt lake stadium. where these field hospitals have been set up and it's, of course, being run by a private hospital the amri hospital. which is actually just across the road. so it's just a satellite center a field hospital which is one of the key ways to ramp up hospital capacity during covid times in Kolkata.

Bengal Election 2021: Final Phase Of Bengal Polls Today As Covid Cases Hit Record High

 

The News Cover: Bengal is polling for the eighth and final phase. of the longest ever assembly elections, anywhere in the country for 33 days, Bengal has been on the vote. mode amid a covid surge that has killed 77 people in the state, in the last 24 hours, and infected over 16,000 people, in fact, four candidates have died, of covid several others are covid hit, and the wife of a covid victim has accused the election commission of murder, amid all this 35 seat poll today. 

but let's go across to the seats, that is polling and also a relief, for everyone in the state as this long-drawn election is finally. over today, yes indeed I mean it's you know the whole excitement and the joy of a vote and then looking forward, to the elections honestly. that has been overshadowed by the covid surge in Kolkata in Bengal, and of course in the rest of the country Delhi, Maharashtra, start with but nevertheless voters, are out I'm in Kolkata today, though there is voting going, on in several districts. as well beer boom, Malda, Murshidabad, as well as remember Shital kuchi, the place where there was firing on the 10th of April that left four people dead, shitholekuchi is also voting today.

so actually a total of 36 seats going. to the polls now, in the meantime the covid impact let me show you lines of people everywhere in Kolkata though in the last phase polling percentages, have been down people are out in strength determined to vote however the covid impact of the elections of being felt every day. you know that yesterday a "woman Nandita Sinha she filed a complaint against the election commission, itself accusing it of murder." because her husband kajal Sinha died during the elections of covid. 

he was the trinomial candidate, from karda other than that an independent. has passed away also from covid up in Malda, at a seat called Nagar but because he's an independent, and not representative of her recognized political party that vote is continuing today. so Shamir Ghosh, the fourth victim candidate, in the elections of covid yet another very prominent leader "Sri Rupa Chaudhary she is the bjp candidate from also Malda's English bazaar, she has been admitted to the hospital yesterday with covid" and is under treatment.

so covid, has had a huge impact as you can see everybody masked up to come and vote other than that very key phase this 35 seats 36 if you count shitokuchi again 2016-2019 assembly elections parliamentary elections good for the bjp they increased their whole share they increased the number of seats, in which they were leading what will they get this time that is the big question but really today with exit polls coming in this evening an election result on Sunday not much of a weight left to that crucial question who is winning back to you?