Soon, check bed availability in Surat hospitals online

Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) will soon be launching an online bed availability system through its portal where patients view how many beds are available in various city hospitals, both, private and government.
Gujarat finance secretary Milind Torawane, who is also in-charge of Surat city for Covid crisis management, has stated that there were enough beds to cater to rising cases in the Diamond City.
Talking with media persons on Wednesday, Torawane said, “The government and private hospitals have 773 empty beds for the Covid-19 patients. Out that 384 beds are in the private hospitals, 100 in New Civil Hospital (NCH) and 289 in SMC-run SMIMER hospital.”
“The SMC authorities are in the process of launching an online system through mobile application and SMC portal to update details of the beds available for Covid-19 patients at government and private hospitals. But it will take some time for the hospitals to collate the data on the beds,” he stated.
“Once it is done the patients will be able to find beds available in the particular hospitals,” he added.
He urged patients not getting beds to contact on 108 and 104 helpline numbers for the prompt action.
The SMC authorities are scaling up healthcare infrastructure, particularly the number of beds in government hospitals and increase the number of Covid care centres to respond to the emergency situation.
The stem cell hospital in NCH campus having 795 Covid beds patients will commence operations starting July 20, while the kidney hospital having 800 beds begin from August 15, stated Torawane.
“About 707 Covid-19 positive patients are under home isolation and that 93 patients are in the isolation rooms in the hotels,” said Torawane.
Head: No shortage
Total beds in the city | 2,374
Beds occupied | 1,579
Available beds | 773
Private hospitals | 384
NCH | 100
SMIMER | 289
Beds at community isolation centres | 750
Isolation centre at Samras Hostel | 500