With coronavirus cases in Bengaluru projected to increase from the current 60,998 cases on Monday to 1.37 lakh in the first week of September, according to some estimates, and the requirement for hospital beds to more than 17,000 due to the availability of around 9,000, the government is fighting to increase capacity.
In 19 government hospitals in Bangalore, there are only 152 beds in the ICU, of which 99 are ventilator beds. As of Monday night, only nine beds in the ICU, six with a ventilator, were empty, according to a centralized database of hospital beds in the city.
With 60,998 cases on Monday, Bangalore has seen 1,104 deaths.
As part of efforts to expand government capacity, Bowring and Lady Curzon State Hospital, which currently has 165 beds and 35 ICU beds reserved for COVID treatment, has taken over the Corporation’s Broadway Hospital. the city. Together with the 550-bed Victoria Hospital and the 104-bed Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Thoracic Diseases, Bowring is Covid’s leading Bangalore hospital in the government sector today.
Using more than Rs 10 million provided by the Infosys Foundation, Broadway has been converted to a 170-bed 48-ICU Covid-19 facility.
“When Broadway Hospital starts operating, we will have more than 500 beds … We will be able to meet the increase in cases that we expect,” said Dr. Manoj Kumar, director-in-charge of Bowring Hospital.
Most of the new fans at Bowring Hospital and Lady Curzon Hospital have been provided by the state government from a shipment of 640 fans obtained under the PM Cares Center scheme.
In addition to expanding Bowring’s capacity, a 30-bed ICU facility is being created at the Epidemic Disease Hospital, which currently has only 40 general beds, and a 20-bed ICU at CV Raman General Hospital, which has 150 beds. general.
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