Surat: With the addition of beds at New Civil Hospital (NCH) the administration has demanded 1,300 more staff members for normal operation at a meeting held with the state’s top health officials besides state’s principal secretary health Jayanti Ravi on Tuesday at the Government Medical College (GMC).
In the meeting NCH officials demanded that they should be given 400 doctors, 300 nursing staff and 600 other workers to manage the expanding hospital facility.
The 800-bed Covid-19 hospital at NCH is already working at its full capacity while the hospital has started admitting patients on 500 beds at the old building. NCH will soon start admitting Covid patients in a newly developed 800-bed kidney hospital.
Meanwhile, the senior health officials approved a process to recruit 70 doctors and 200 nursing staff on a contract basis. Recruitment process will start soon.
Demand for ventilators and oxygen tanks were also raised to the state health officials and due to the rise in Covid-19 cases the government started work to develop supportive infrastructure.
NCH superintendent Dr S M Patel has been replaced with Dr Ragini Verma following Patel’s request on health grounds. Verma was superintendent of NCH for a few months during the rise of Covid cases in 2020.