In view of increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the district, the Gurugram administration on Monday asked all private and public hospitals to reserve 50 per cent of their total beds capacity in general category and 75 per cent beds in ICU/ventilator for Covid-19 patients.
The hospitals were also told to reserve ICU and ventilator facilities for Covid-19 patients in Gurugram.
Moreover, the data of available beds will have to be uploaded on the platform ‘onemapggm.gmda.gov.in’ of the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) by the hospitals.
The order was issued under the epidemic diseases Act-1897 and sub-section-2 of the Disaster Management Act-2005.
“We have asked all the hospitals to provide services including human resources and logistics ie doctors, paramedical staff, medicine, ICU, ambulance etc. Apart from this information about the number of patients and available beds, etc., will be updated on a daily basis on the GMDA platform,” the order said.
Apart from this, the Gurugram district on Monday recorded 546 fresh coronavirus cases. Three deaths were also reported from the city, taking the district's COVID toll to 244, officials said.
The Covid-19 tally in Gurugram has now risen to 39,933, according to the official daily health bulletin.
There are a total of 5,749 active cases.
A total of 33,940 have been cured and discharged, including 784 on Monday.
The health department said out of 244 deaths, 189 died due to co-morbidities and the remaining 55 without co-morbidities.