Another Covid-19 hospital comes up in Bhubaneswar

BHUBANESWAR: One more dedicated Covid-19 hospital came up in the city on Monday. Aditya Ashwini Hospitals in Chandrasekharpur here has 150 beds, including 30 ICU and 21 high dependency unit (HDU) beds.
Now total number of beds in dedicated Covid hospitals in the city is 1,175, including 115 ICU beds. While the KIMS Covid Hospital has got 500 beds, including 45 ICU beds, the IMS-SUM Hospital has got 525 beds with 25 ICUs. These dedicated Covid hospitals are set up to treat serious and critical Covid patients.
The Covid Health Centre (CHC) at Urban Community Health Centre (UCHC), Patia, has 60 beds for the treatment of mildly symptomatic individuals. Another 50 will be added soon to UCHC at Dumduma area for this purpose.
The city has Covid Care Centres (CCC) for asymptomatic and very mild symptomatic patients. While the High-Tech Medical has 550 beds under this category, the SIDBI Jaydev Vihar has 40 beds to treat such patients.
The government is planning to open Covid Care Homes (CCHs) with 50-bed each for three administrative zones of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area. These care homes will be developed with the contribution from the MLA LAD fund of the respective MLAs of the city.
BMC sources said various resident welfare associations, non-government organisations and religious bodies have given proposal to come forward with CCHs in coming days.