Tribune news service
New Delhi, November 18
To curb the rise in Covid cases in the national capital, the Ministry of the Interior (MHA) has dispatched 45 doctors and 160 paramedics from the Central Police Armed Forces to take over the DRDO-run hospital near Delhi airport.
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