As of 13th june, According to the Delhi Govt, there are 36,824 total cases out which 1214 people deceased. There is mismatch is of the death numbers from govt and MCD(municipality).
The first mismatch starts on May 9, when the city’s official toll was 66, data separately released by hospitals had shown as many as 116 people had actually succumbed to the infection. Chief Secretary Vijay Dev, on May 10, had issued an order, saying “both public and private hospitals are not reporting the deaths of positive cases of Covid19 in a timely and regular manner”. Thats the reason he gave for mismatch.
After this statement MCD comes in, they first emerged on May 16, Delhi Health Secretary Padmini Singla wrote to the civic bodies, seeking details of cremations and burials of people who either had or were suspected to have Covid-19 at the Nigambodh Ghat and Punjabi Bagh crematoriums and the ITO graveyard of bodies. The MCDs replied saying there had been 426 cremations or burials of corona positive persons at six designated cremation/burial grounds until May 16. The official death toll from Delhi Government was 194 at that point.
On May 19, Health Secretary Singla once again flagged the delay in reporting deaths on the part of the hospitals. She wrote to the District Magistrates and all hospitals observing that “health care facilities in Delhi are not timely reporting death of Covid positive persons as per the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)”. Hospitals must report every death to the Death Audit Committee constituted by the state government on April 20. The three-member committee— with Dr Ashok Kumar, former Director General of Health Services as chairperson and Dr Vikas Dogra and Dr RN Das as members— has been tasked with auditing “Daily each and every death in which the Covid-19 test is positive in government and private hospitals before releasing data”.
The hospitals are expected to report all death cases, along with scanned copies of case summary, medical files and other relevant data with the committee by 5 pm every day. The hospitals have also been directed to appoint nodal officers just for this purpose. The audit committee is then expected to meet at 5.30 pm for examining the reports and declare after “due diligence death due to Covid-19 or otherwise”. If a hospital does not send its report on any given day, the state surveillance officer has been tasked with dialling up the management of the concerned hospital immediately. If even that does not work, the Director General of Health Services is expected to intervene. And if the delay persists, the concerned hospital will have to file a written submission the very next day, explaining the reason behind the delay.This way the matter started a conflict whether the burial and cremations are not due to coronavirus or Delhi Govt. is hiding the facts.
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