Leave home only when it is very much required, as covid bed occupancy in city is 94% : AMC

Sabarmati: Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) today said that the citizens should step outside their homes only when it is highly required, as covid pandemic infection spread in the city is at its peak.

Sharing the data of availability of covid beds, AMC said the occupancy of beds in covid hospitals in the city is over 90 per cent at present and vacant beds are mainly in the category of isolation beds (not ICU or oxygen beds). The occupancy of beds across 167 private hospitals in the city is 94 per cent. Out of total 1875 beds, as many as 1565 are occupied across 176 nursing homes that cater to mild covid patients, the AMC note further said.

AMC said only 191 oxygen + ICU beds available in the city. There are 2800 Sanjivani Rath vehicle that visit over 35,000 home quarantined patients at their doorstep and offer required medicines for free.

AMC said, before the second wave of covid19 pandemic, AMC had 200-bed capacity for covid patients across AMC run hospitals, which is now up at 1,907. This figure has been achieved by increasing covid beds in SVP hospital from 200 to 1179 and by reserving most beds in other AMC run hospitals such as VS hospital(150), LG(440) and Shardaben(138) for only Covid patients.

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