{"id":30952,"date":"2021-04-15T14:46:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T05:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/15\/medics-anger-as-delhi-orders-private-hospitals-be-reserved-for-covid-cases"},"modified":"2021-04-15T14:46:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T05:46:44","slug":"medics-anger-as-delhi-orders-most-beds-in-private-hospitals-be-reserved-for-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30952","title":{"rendered":"Medics\u2019 anger as Delhi orders most beds in private hospitals be reserved for Covid cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors say \u2018absurd\u2019 move, made as second wave surges, is unfair on non-Covid patients <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Doctors have expressed fears for patients after the government ordered that the majority of the beds in 14 of Delhi\u2019s biggest private hospitals be reserved exclusively for Covid patients, as the Indian capital\u2019s healthcare system struggles to cope with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/a-tsunami-of-cases-desperation-as-covid-second-wave-batters-india\">virulent second wave.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The announcement by the government came as the situation in Delhi grew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/11\/india-steps-up-vaccine-effort-as-covid-cases-hit-record-high\">increasingly dire<\/a>, with over 17,000 new cases reported on Wednesday, breaking all records since the pandemic began, and 104 deaths. The capital has overtaken Mumbai, previously Covid ground zero in India, in terms of the number of new cases reported every day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/15\/medics-anger-as-delhi-orders-private-hospitals-be-reserved-for-covid-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors say \u2018absurd\u2019 move, made as second wave surges, is unfair on non-Covid patients Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Doctors have expressed fears for patients after the government ordered that the majority of the beds in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2092,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,59,346,841,62,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-health","category-hospitals","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30953,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30952\/revisions\/30953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}