200 No. of isolation coaches at Anand Vihar station
NEW DELHI: From Tuesday, 200 train coaches will be present at Delhi’s busy Anand Vihar Terminal Railway Station. Rail services have been completely halted at the station, so the coaches are meant to house Covid-19 patients requiring isolation. A total of 500 of these innovative isolation wards, providing beds for 8,000 patients, are to be stationed across Delhi, 59 of which are already operational at Shakurbasti.
Deepak Kumar, chief PRO, Northern Railway, told TOI that the coaches will be placed on the platforms of the Anand Vihar station, the rail traffic there having been diverted to Delhi Junction Railway Station. Northern Railway had created the prototype of an isolation coach for the Union railways ministry in the last week of March, and this model has since been replicated in other zonal railway networks.
North Western Railway will send