The Uttar Pradesh government issued orders to all district authorities to ensure that all private hospitals and clinics opened for a specific time every day.
Chief Secretary RK Tiwari said on Wednesday that the district administrations should ensure that all private hospitals and nursing homes along with clinics opened for at least a few hours so that basic health facilities could be extended to the people.
“The authorities should also ensure that private doctors should prefer to attend to patients at their residences,” Tiwari said.
The directive said that private hospitals should not only provide emergency services but also take care of regular patients.
Meanwhile, the government notified COVID-19 hospitals of which 80 are Level 1 in rural areas, 51 are Level 2 hospitals at divisional and district levels and six hospitals are of Level 3 in major cities and include hospitals of medical colleges in Prayagraj, Jhansi Meerut, SGPGI, Lucknow and PGI, Saifai.
These hospitals will have 200 beds dedicated for COVID-19 treatment and at least 40 ventilators.