7 private hospitals in Mohali to set aside 50% bed capacity for COVID care

Gaurav Kanthwal
Tribune News Service
Mohali, April 16

The Mohali administration on Friday ordered seven private hospitals to set aside at least 50% of their total bed capacity as isolation beds and wards for COVID care.

The seven hospitals — Max Super-specialty, Fortis Heathcare, SGHS Sohana, Indus Hospital and IVY Hospital, Grecian Super-specialty and Mayo Super-specialty — provide tertiary care (L2/L3) for COVID patients in the district.

”The district possesses minimal public health infrastructure, given that the District Hospital is under re-construction as a Medical College – which will take time. Most of the ICU beds/ ventilators (L2/L3 i.e. Tertiary Care) are in the private sector,” said Mohali DC Girish Dayalan in an order.

The hospitals shall also put certain ambulances exclusively to attend to COVID-19 patients/suspected cases.

Civil Surgeon, Mohali, shall decide on the exact number of beds/ambulances based on the overall capacity of the hospital.

Private hospitals in the district shall not refuse admission or treatment to COVID patients referred by the Civil Surgeon, Mohali. The hospitals shall ensure that staff – doctors, nurses, and paramedics — are all available on duty and no one shall refuse treatment, said the order.

There have been 3,466 positive cases with 21 deaths in the week starting April 8, 2021, and the district has witnessed 486 deaths to date.