Pune: Dalvi hospital to get more doctors soon

PUNE: The civic administration has decided to appoint a team of additional medical staffers and doctors at its Dalvi hospital in the Shivajinagar area.
With this, more oxygen beds are likely to get operational in the facility treating the Covid-19 patients. The hospital is currently operating 29 beds with oxygen facility and all are full.
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials said the orders of appointments have been issued and the staffers would be made available in the next few days.
“We are expecting to increase the medical and para-medical staff strength at the hospital by 30, including the doctors. The operation of more beds will depend on the joining of the new staffers. We are, however, expecting to operate at least 50 more beds with oxygen facilities. We are also working on provision of more beds and arrangements of basic infrastructure that would require operate the beds,” an official said.
The hospital already has oxygen and ICU bed facilities. However, some beds are not being used because of the shortage of doctors and staff. Last month, the administration enhanced the supply of oxygen at the hospital with commencement of liquid oxygen unit. In addition to the oxygen beds, the hospital has 10 Intensive Care Unit beds. These beds were made operational in July.
The officials stated that functioning of some Covid care centres has been put on hold because of the drop in number of patients. “The doctors and nurses from the Covid care centres will be deployed at the facilities such as Dalvi and Khedekar hospitals. We are working on the plans of deployment of manpower,” an official said.