District hospital to turn into isolation unit

Noida: The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, in partnership with Tata Trusts, will help furnish the 280-bed new district hospital in Sector 39 and prepare it for Covid-19 cases.
Currently, the hospital is being used as a quarantine facility. Over 150 people at are the unit in the new building as of now. “The foundation will be spending five million dollars on the project and will help with all kinds of equipment and infrastructure required for handling coronavirus patients. We already have 300 beds for positive patients at various facilities. Having these new beds will greatly enhance our capacity,” said Narendra Bhooshan, the nodal officer for handling Covid-19 response in the district.

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