Gurgaon seeks staff to run 100-bed Covid facility

Gurgaon: The district health department has sought staff from the state government to run the100-bed makeshift hospital that is being set up at Tau Devi Lal Stadium.
The hospital, according to the health department, requires 60 staff nurses, 16 general duty medical officers, three physicians, five anesthetists, 15 sweepers and ward attendants and four security guards. The hospital will have 80 ICU beds, 10 beds for high-dependency units and 10 ventilators.
The district, at present, is setting up makeshift hospitals at nine areas and those will have 1,110 beds in total. These nine locations are SGT medical hospital (500 beds), Tau Devi Lal Stadium (100 beds), Nilkanth hospital (50 beds), Government Girls PG College (100 beds), Girls college in Sector 14 (100 beds), M3M Urbana in Sector 67 (100 beds), DLF community centre phase-1 and phase-3 (150 beds), Honda warehouse in Manesar (25 beds), Hotel New Destination near Pushpanjali Hospital (35 beds) and Apollo guest house in Sector-46 (150 beds).
“Most projects are being set up now. Soon, the district will have more than 1,000 additional beds for Covid patients,” said Dr Virender Yadav, chief medical officer. He also said, “Adequate steps are being taken to ensure that the makeshift hospitals work effectively. I have already sent a request to the headquarters seeking additional staff for the 100-bed makeshift hospital which is coming up at Tau Devi Lal Stadium.”
A team formed by the health department and the district administration had faced opposition from residents in Sector 27, while the makeshift facility was being planned in that area. Initially, the makeshift facility was planned on a one-acre government school land that is lying adjacent to the old hospital building in Civil Lines. Since it was a small patch of land, the health department had decided to set up the facility at Sector 27, but again it had to change the plan and shift the facility to Tau Devi Lal Stadium after facing protests.
Gurgaon’s medical infrastructure is under immense strain with more than 3,500 fresh cases being added daily on an average in the past few days. Several residents, meanwhile, are still scrambling to get hospital beds for Covid-19 patients in their families. The district has more than 34,000 Covid patients under home isolation, while around 2,400 patients are in hospitals.