With the surge in Covid cases, an acute shortage of beds for Covid patients has emerged in Gurugram.
In order to deal with this problem the Gurugram district administration has put all efforts to increase number of beds in the city to fecitilate Covid patients in a better manner. For this, Deputy Commissioner Yash Garg had directed the hospitals to increase the number of beds reserved for Covid patients to at least 60 per cent under the general category and 75 per cent of the total bed capacity of ICU and ventilator beds. With this order around 1,000 more will be available for covid patients.
Also, Executive Magistrate and Nodal Officers at each hospital to strictly enforce the orders of the deputy commissioner and ensure that every hospital provides beds for the specified number of covid patients.
Additional Chief Secretary, TC Gupta has recently reviewed the preparations of the district administration via video conferencing and asked suggestions from the top officials of the district.
During the meeting, the chief executive officer of the Gurugram Metropolitan Department Authority (GMDA), Sudhir Rajpal said that there is a need for better management of available bed numbers and data analysis.
He said that the infrastructure will also be increased as per the requirement.
Vinay Pratap Singh, Commissioner of Municipal Corporation Gurugram (MCG), said that about 100 beds have been arranged in SGT Medical College recently, 20 will be added to these with oxygen and 5 more beds with ventilator facility.
“Efforts are being made to increase the number of beds with oxygen facility in Gurugram through CSR in collaboration with various corporate companies. For this, 7 community centers have also been identified. Also, the number of beds will be increased tying up with hotels, guest houses etc,” he said.
Singh assured that efforts are being made to provide 200 beds in the next 3 days, including 20 beds with ventilators.
During the meeting the Deputy Commissioner Yash Garg also suggested that by taking over ESI Hospital Manesar, including the community hall adjoining it, there could be around 150 additional beds could be increased.
“We have also consulted some big companies and NGOs of Gurugram to build hospitals for covid patients,” Garg said, adding that 50 extra beds have been arranged in the civil hospital of Gurugram. Apart from this, beds with 25-25 oxygen facilities have been functional in sub-divisional level civil hospitals of Sohna and Pataudi and number of functional beds in ESI Hospital Gurugram has been increased from 58 to 72,” he said.
Additional Deputy Commissioner, Prashant Pawar informed that the administration’s “covidggn.com” portal ment for beds registration for covid patients has received 525 application, out of which only 80 patients have been found eligible for admission.
“They are being admitted on the basis of ‘first come first serve’ as beds are being available in hospitals,” Pawar said.
Meanwhile, an Officer claimed that the daily average oxygen supplies for Gurugram has been increased to 31 from 22 metric tones per day.
Gurugram on Monday reported 3,555 new Covid-19 cases, while seven deaths in the past 24 hours mounted its Covid death toll to 436, officials said.
The number of active cases in the district stood at 27,318 including 26,137 patients under home isolation.