Surat: With the addition of beds at New Civil Hospital (NCH) the administration has demanded 1,300 more staff members for normal operation at a meeting held with the state’s top health officials besides state’s principal secretary health Jayanti Ravi on Tuesday at the Government Medical College (GMC).
In the meeting NCH officials demanded that they should be given 400 doctors, 300 nursing staff and 600 other workers to manage the expanding hospital facility.
The 800-bed Covid-19 hospital at NCH is already working at its full capacity while the hospital has started admitting patients on 500 beds at the old building. NCH will soon start admitting Covid patients in a newly developed 800-bed kidney hospital.