Indian Railways is fully geared to provide COVID Care Centres to State Authorities. Trains with unit composition of 10 coaches, with patient capacity of 16 per coach have been made ready. Railway Ministry said, a total of five thousand 231 coaches were modified to be used as COVID Care Centre. Telangana has asked for coaches to be stationed in three locations- Secunderabad, Kachiguda and Adilabad. Uttar Pradesh has finalized 24 stations for deployment. In Delhi, 10 coaches are stationed at Shakurbasti location. Railways has geared up to provide COVID Care Centers to States across the country UP has finalised 24 stations for deployment. Telangana has requested coaches in 3 locations 10 coaches have been requisitioned in Delhi https://t.co/OjjHnTybj8 pic.twitter.com/Vjv3zWtkyp — Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) June 11, 2020 The Ministry said, Zonal Railways have converted these coaches for a quarantine facility. The coaches can be used for very mild cases that can be clinically assigned to the COVID Care Centres as per guidelines issued by the Health and Family Welfare Ministry. These coaches can be used in areas where the state has exhausted the facilities and needs to augment capacities for isolation of both suspect and confirmed COVID cases. These facilities are part of the integrated COVID plan developed by Union Health Ministry and NITI Ayog. Railways has kept 158 stations ready with watering and charging facility and 58 stations with watering facility for these COVID Care Centres.
