New Delhi: In a new initiative that comes in the backdrop of the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of Coronavirus infection, Railways has made its Health Services available to all Central Government Employees across the country now. The services include Primary, Secondary, and tertiary care in certain specialties.
Indian Railways has already been making efforts to supplement the health care efforts of the Centre in the fight against Coronavirus infection. The spectrum of steps taken by it to facilitate the same include equipping the existing Railway Hospitals to meet the needs for COVID-19, earmarking of hospital beds to meet the contingencies, recruitment of additional doctors and paramedics, modification of passenger coaches as isolation coaches, availability of medical equipments, in-house production of PPEs and Ventilators, etc.
"The Health Department of Railways is getting ready and equipped to supplement the healthcare efforts of Government of India in its fight against Coronavirus. Railways has a chain of 586 Health Units, 45 Sub Divisional Hospitals, 56 Divisional Hospitals, eight Production Units Hospitals and 16 Zonal Hospitals spread all over the country. A significant portion of these facilities will now be dedicated to combat the Coronavirus," the Railways said in a press release on Wednesday.
With a total of 2,546 posts of doctors and 35,153 paramedic staff, including nursing staff, pharmacist and other category of staff, Railways is ready to face any challenge in the fight against COVID-19.
Following initiatives have been taken by Indian Railways in the fight against COVID-19:-