' ? # &) @ ) @ @ /123/4!(+) &0//&1 &23 4 (0&2-5 #B *<* *7E/11/157/ ,%+ B*1=* *5 57 0/1+ = 15= 7=/*+< <D*< N 15+<G+ / * */*H1/ </ <7< /< * <7/ C*<=D6C+ A5 -.'.//0 ':% A *# & !!*$*$5 !** ! "#$ /*+*5 ith an aim to increase Wtransparency in alloca- tion of hospital beds during the /*+*5 Covid-19 pandemic, Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi day after the two Armies Q R Anil Baijal on Wednesday Amutually started pulling directed Chief Secretary Vijay back their troops from the Dev to ensure installation of stand-off sites on the Line of LED (Light Emitting Diode) Actual Control (LAC) in boards at all major health facil- Ladakh, senior commanders ities to display bed availability, 5*# 8 of India and Chine met on charges and details of persons Wednesday to fine-tune total to be contacted for admission. # disengagement. They also Earlier in the day, Delhi agreed to continue the dialogue. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal In Beijing, the Chinese on Wednesday said his Government said on General-level talks on Government will implement # Wednesday, the two armies Wednesday at Chushul on the the “Centre’s decision” and have started implementing the LAC, sources said some more Baijal’s order overturning the # O “positive consensus” reached by rounds of such parleys will take decision on reservation of the senior military officials of place over the next ten to 12 State-run and private hospitals & the two countries on June 6. days. in the national Capital for # This high-level meeting These regular interactions Delhiites as “this is not the between Lt General Harinder ranging from Major Generals time for disagreement and Singh and Major General Liu to Colonel level will ensure that arguments”. Kejriwal also met Lin was aimed at “easing” the the ongoing confrontation Union Home Minister Amit $ '($) $ situation along the LAC. ends. Shah to discus the Covid-19 sit- The Chinese Foreign Moreover, the latest Major uation in Delhi. He said Shah “In order to increase trans- ble), along with charges, includ- ensure that correct data is dis- ing days. Ministry’s reaction came after General level talks and the has assured him of all cooper- parency and to facilitate public, ing for rooms/beds and details played by health facilities and Delhi will need 1.5 lakh the two armies partially with- upcoming rounds will see both ation in the fight against the all major hospitals/clinics/nurs- of contact persons for admis- no genuine patient is denied beds in healthcare facilities by drew their troops from three of the sides committing and coronavirus. ing homes of Delhi should be sion,” Baijal said in the letter. admission or is overcharged. July 31 once people start com- the four face-off sites. The implementing the withdrawal In his letter, the L-G said directed to display on LED The L-G, who is also the On Covid-19 data, Kejriwal ing to the city for treatment stand-offs were on for the last of troops from the face-off the Health Department may be boards in large letters outside chairman of Delhi Disaster said the Delhi Government from other States, he said, one month with both the sides sites, operational areas located advised to ensure that data dis- The move is aimed at their establishments, at the Management Authority, said has “unprecedented challenges” asserting that the AAP dis- also ramping their troop 20 to 25 km away from the played on these LED boards increasing transparency in allo- entry point itself, the availabil- periodic surprise checks may ahead as data shows that coro- pensation will make an “hon- strength on the LAC and in the LAC on both sides and addi- reconciles with that available on cation of hospital beds during ity of beds, (both Covid and also be conducted by officers navirus cases will rapidly est effort” to provide medical operational areas. tional troops returning to the Delhi Government’s app. the Covid-19 pandemic. non-Covid, wherever applica- deputed by the DDMA to increase in Delhi in the com- treatment to all. As regards the Major peacetime locations. % & $ %! ! )*($ $ /*+*5 cases on Wednesday as the State’s tally soared at 94,041. It # # aharashtra, Tamil Nadu also recorded 149 casualties $%!%%% Mand Delhi recorded day’s taking the death toll to 3,438. $ huge spike on Wednesday as Of the new infections, 1,567 & coronavirus situation wors- were from Mumbai taking total # & ened across the country. Total cases in the city to 52,667. # number of cases on Wednesday Mumbai’s tally alone is '() /*+*5 stood at 2,86,786 while the pan- bigger than any other State. It demic has claimed 8,106 lives also recorded 97 fatalities. As P hen Kavita took her ail- so far, with over 10,700 new many as 11 new cases detect- !"#$% Wing 63-year-old-mother cases and over 350 deaths. ed in Mumbai’s slum Dharavi, * to a CGHS empanelled private Maharashtra recorded its taking tally to 1,964. No fresh ple who had tested positive for cases while 5,93,784 people +# #& hospital at Chanakyapuri in the also refusing treatment under Government’s mandated cash- highest single-day jump in death was recorded in the slum Covid-19 have been discharged have been tested so far. ,!-%%& national Capital for a medical cashless (Central Government less norms. We have now asked Covid-19 cases with 3,254 new colony. A total of 44,517 peo- so far. There are 46,074, active The virus claimed one '!-.% emergency, she was left aghast Health Scheme) CGHS norms,” all such hospitals for strict more police personnel in # / when the doctors asked her to rued Kavita, who later took her adherence to stipulated guide- Mumbai on Wednesday, which & shell out 25,000 per day for mother to a Government hos- lines,” said a senior health ,-. took the death toll due to the 0 ! )1 next ten days. They insisted pital for treatment. official. ($!%$' -!$-2 $$!.': infection in the State’s police '%2 that her mother should get test- However, hers is not the As per the order, all CGHS // /" / -:!2$' -,: '(!--- department to 35. #!-,# ed for Covid-19 even if she is lone case. Taking cognizance of empanelled hospitals notified -,!2'% '() ',!,$. Due to the death of the L M# not having symptoms. several such complaints, the as Covid hospitals by State policeman, a 54-year-old con- However, what added to Union Health Ministry on Governments shall provide 8 ,'!..$ '!-$;'$!;$- stable, the number of Covid-19 &) Kavita’s agony was that the Wednesday warned the CGHS treatment to such beneficiaries 7 ''!:'% -,':!(;' fatalities in the city’s police hospital management also empanelled private hospitals as per norms for all Covid- <8 ''!:%% ,.(2!.:( force went up to 21. % refused to consider her moth- and diagnostic centres of strict related treatments. *(+,(+ A Shiv Sena corporator %& er’s CGHS card which enables actions if they fail to provide “Similarly, it is directed '%!%$( $,;:!2(, from Mira Bhayandar and his her cashless medical facilities. Covid or non-Covid treatment that all the CGHS empanelled (!$+ += (!-,2 $-,-!;;( mother, died within a span of “My mother had suffered to CGHS cardholders. hospitals, which are not noti- 0& :!%$' :(,!2:, two days from coronavirus. # brain stroke and she was in “We have been getting fied as Covid hospitals shall not = .!:(2 -$,!(-$ Two Covid-19 patients, includ- # ##& need of immediate medical widespread complaints from deny treatment facilities and ing an undertrial prisoner, who treatment. But the hospital the CGHS beneficiaries who admission to CGHS beneficia- .!.;( .,,!'22 escaped from different hospi- #! refused to see her unless I pay alleged that the CGHS empan- ries and shall charge as per !)$(() .!,$; ;2,!2:( tals in Maharashtra’s + in cash and advance. There is elled private hospitals were CGHS norms,” the order said 6 >0 $!.%; .''!:;' Aurangabad district in last # absolutely no check on the issuing diktats and charging adding, that action shall be !",,(! three days, have been found # hospitals which are not only exorbitant fees or asking them taken in case of violation of the $!''' '.:'!2'; and sent back to the medical ) charging exorbitant fees but to pay in cash, much against the guidelines. 1 -!,.% '',!,2, facilities. &" &' $ !R" $ ( $ % $ 67 So far, 93 terrorists have been eliminated in over peration All Out” is in full three dozen operations since Oswing to flush out hiding January 2020. terrorists from their safe hide- According to police, a dis- outs in South Kashmir district trict commander of pro- *// constituency. of Shopian. On Wednesday, Pakistan terror outfit Hizbul Anbazhagan was joint teams of security forces Mujahideen and a Lashkar-e- Anbazhagan, one actively engaged in eliminated five more terrorists, Tayyeba terrorist were among Jof the stalwarts of distribution of relief taking the total tally of those those gunned down during an the DMK, suc- materials to the peo- killed in Shopian to 14 in the eight-hour long operation cumbed to the ple in his con- last four days. Four terrorists near village Sugoo Handhama Covid-19 at a corpo- stituency following were killed on Sunday and five in Shopian. rate hospital in the lockdown on Monday in Shopian district. Sharing details of the joint Chennai on declared by the operation, Brigadier Ajay Wednesday morning. He was a Government as part of con- Katoch said, “The cordon and member of the Tamil Nadu trolling the coronavirus pan- search operations were Legislative Assembly and a demic. It is believed that the launched late on Tuesday night close confidant of party chief DMK leader developed infec- after receiving inputs about MK Stalin. tion while interacting with the the presence of a group of ter- Anbazhagan, whose 62nd people of his constituency.