The number of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds in the Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital would be increased to accommodate serious patients of COVID-19.
The hospital is functioning as dedicated COVID treatment centre for Dehradun district and at present has 10 bed ICU for these patients. On Saturday, the Director General (DG) of state health services, Dr Amita Upreti visited the hospital. She said that a 43 bed ICU is being prepared for COVID-19 patients. Upreti said that the hospital at present has 121 beds for the suspected patients of COVID-19. She said that the hospital has a capacity to increase the number of beds of treatment of Coronavirus patients to 400 and for it necessary instructions have been given to the hospital.