The Aditya Ashwini Hospitals at Chandrasekharpur was added on Monday to the list of Dedicated Covid Hospitals (DCHs) in the Capital city, increasing the total number of beds in the DCHs to 1,175 and the total ICU beds 115. The new hospital has 150 beds including 30 ICU beds and 21 high dependency units (HDUs).
Notably, while the KIMS Covid Hospital in the city has got 500 beds including 45 ICU beds, the IMS-SUM Hospital has got 525 beds with 25 ICUs. These latter two are also coming under the DCH category meant to treat serious and critical patients.
The Covid Health Centre (CHC) at Urban Community Health Centre, Patia, has 60 beds for treatment of mildly-symptomatic individuals. Another 50 would be added soon to UCHC at Dumduma under this category.
Besides, the city has Covid Care Centres (CCCs) for asymptomatic and very mild symptomatic patients. While the High-Tech Medical has 550 beds under this category, the SIDBI Jayadev Vihar has 40 beds.
All the seats at the DCHs, CCCs, CHCs and CCHs combined would be 3,521 and the number of ICU beds 115 and 21 HDU beds, respectively, to serve the growing number of patients.