Lessons Learnt From a Greenfield Hangar-Based 1,000-Bedded Temporary Hospital in India.

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Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) Office, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi, India.

Published: July 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the total number of hospital beds in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi was 54,321 (roughly 300 beds per one lakh population), which was inadequate for the patients. Therefore, the Indian government initiated the construction of a 1,000-bedded greenfield hangar-based hospital to bridge the healthcare gap. As a result, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds in the facility augmented the COVID-19 care ICU beds in the city by 11%. The authors were involved in the planning, developing, and initiating the functioning of 1,000-bedded Dedicated COVID-19 Hospital (DCH). The hospital was conceptualized, built, and operationalized in 12 days only. Lessons learned from this experience would be of benefit should similar situations arise in future. Coordinating structural designing early with the entire project team-from facility administrators and medical practitioners to architects, consultants, and contractors-can result in a structure that better matches the facility's long-term needs and often saves construction time and costs. This article enumerates various challenges faced and the way they were addressed. This hangar-based hospital can be rapidly constructed and deployed on a massive scale. While structural integrity is essential, the planning team was particularly aware of the patient-centric modality of healthcare. Many modifications were carried out in the structure based on patient inputs. Informal discussions with discharged patients and relatives revealed that the human-centric approach was the mainstay of the therapy.

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Lessons Learnt From a Greenfield Hangar-Based 1,000-Bedded Temporary Hospital in India.

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Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) Office, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi, India.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the total number of hospital beds in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi was 54,321 (roughly 300 beds per one lakh population), which was inadequate for the patients. Therefore, the Indian government initiated the construction of a 1,000-bedded greenfield hangar-based hospital to bridge the healthcare gap. As a result, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds in the facility augmented the COVID-19 care ICU beds in the city by 11%.

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