ITBP-run Covid Centre in Delhi Deploys Stress Counsellors as Oxygen Support Improves
News 18The Indo-Tibetan Border Police -run COVID care centre in south Delhi is now providing "uninterrupted" medical oxygen to patients, while a team of at least 30 stress counsellors has been deployed to soothe the frayed nerves of the inmates and their attendants, officials said on Wednesday. Started on April 26, the 500-oxygen bed Sardar Patel COVID care centre in the Chattarpur area here has about 357 coronavirus-infected patients admitted at present and activities here are much more streamlined now, they said. An ITBP spokesperson said a team of about 30 stress counsellors is working under the command of senior psychiatrist Dr Prashant Mishra at the centre. "The team interacted with the healthcare and frontline workers at the centre and witnessed the entire operation of the facility including treatment protocols, patient case sheet and administrative setup," the spokesperson said.