Despite increasing bed count, JIPMER swamped due to rising COVID cases in Puducherry
The number of ICU beds have been increased from 35 to 61 and the process of redesignating an additional 75 beds for COVID-related emergencies is underway.
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By Express News Service
PUDUCHERRY: JIPMER which is focused on caring for acutely sick COVID patients has increased the number of beds available to 400, Director of the institute Dr. Rakesh Agarwal said on Tuesday.
The JIPMER director said that the number of beds with centralized piped oxygen has also been increased along with ICU beds and added that efforts are on in a war footing to tackle the shortage caused by increasing COVID cases.