JNTU-K campus converted into 1000-bed COVID facility
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As instances surge within the district, the State authorities has converted the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU-Kakinada) campus into a 1000-bed COVID Care Centre to accommodate sufferers with delicate or reasonable signs.
East Godavari Collector D. Muralidhar Reddy and Kakinada Municipal Corporation Commissioner Swapnil Dinakar on Tuesday inaugurated the centre on the JNTU-K campus and companies started on Tuesday. Patients who should not have services to isolate at residence can be sheltered right here. They can be solely shifted to the federal government hospital on docs’ advice.
“The requirement of beds in the COVID Care Centres is growing by the day. As many as 6,000 beds have been arranged in the three COVID Care Centres set up at JNTU-K, Bodasakkurru that covers the Konaseema region and Bommuru that covers the Rajamahendravaram and surrounding areas,” stated Mr. Muralidhar. The district has 72 designated COVID hospitals.
By Tuesday, solely two Intensive Critical Care(ICU) beds had been vacant of the full capability of 62 on the Government General Hospital (GGH-Kakinada). In case of beds with oxygen provide, a complete of 111 beds are vacant of the full 794 beds.
In Rajamahendravaram, the District Government Hospital has stopped admitting new sufferers as all 53 ICU beds and all 347 beds with oxygen provide have been occupied.
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