1,000-bed Covid facility opened

Surat: Gujarat deputy chief minister Nitin Patel on Friday dedicated a 1,000-bed facility in the Stem Cell Hospital building on New Civil Hospital campus for Covid-19 patients. The inauguration was done from Gandhinagar through a video conferencing. “The new Covid-19 facility, prepared in just two weeks also has 211 ICU beds. With addition of 1,000 more beds, the total number of dedicated Covid-19 beds have gone up to 3,300 in Surat,” said Patel.