190 more beds being added as Oxygen concentrators installed
190 more beds being added as Oxygen concentrators installed
No bed shortage in CD, 16 still vacant
Contrary to reports run on Social Media that the Chest Diseases Hospital in Jammu has run short of beds, at least 120 beds were available in three COVID hospital including the GMC Jammu, CD Hospital and MCH Gandhi Nagar and with successful installation of 150 Oxygen concentrators and new pipeline, 190 more beds will be added in the next couple of days.
GMC Jammu Principal Dr Shashi Sudhan Sharma and CD Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Rajeshwar Sharma told the Excelsior that patients shown in videos on Social Media sitting in open with Oxygen cylinder fitted were in fact waiting for High Resolution CT Scan and their reports and that there was no shortage of the beds at all in the CD Hospital.