Surat Covid bed capacity to be ramped up to 7,000: CM

Surat: Even as Surat has seen a massive spike in Covid cases, especially in July, the chief minister claimed that the situation is under control due to micro-planning and detailed strategy.
The bed capacity for Covid-19 treatment in Surat will be increased from 4,800 to 7,000 as also the rapid antigen tests, chief minister Vijay Rupani said on Sunday.
Rupani and his deputy Nitin Patel visited the state-run New Civil Hospital (NCH) to review the situation and the construction work of the dedicated Covid-19 facility at the kidney hospital. This was Rupani’s second visit to the city, the first one being on July 4. “Not only the positive cases, but the death rate also has decreased in Surat,” he claimed.
According to Rupani, Surat is the first city in Gujarat where the state government has allotted a total of 128 ventilators to the private hospitals out of the total 600 ventilators. One month ago, Surat was doing about 130 tests per million which has been increased to 1,200 per million per day. In the state, about 26,000 tests are being performed in a day.
“The recovery rate in Surat has improved from 60% to 70%, while in Gujarat it is 73%,” he said, adding around 40,000 patients are being checked every day in the 121 dhanvantri raths in Surat. Referring to the medicines requirement, “All patients who were required to be administered tocilizumab injection and remdesivir have been given. We have enough stock of injections in Surat.”
Rupani also felicitated the plasma donors and the corona warriors.