ICU bed numbers must be doubled: Health Ministry
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As per the ministry of health and family welfare statistics, India needs 162,000 ICU beds to meet hospitalisation requirements arising from 300,000 new coronavirus cases per day, but has only 81,094 such units. The Centre and states have been trying to increase ICU beds.
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The current number of ICU beds is just about enough if cases were increasing by 150,000 a day.
India has half the number of intensive care unit (ICU) beds for Covid-19 patients required to address the surge in cases, currently well over 350,000 per day.
As per the ministry of health and family welfare statistics, India needs 162,000 ICU beds to meet hospitalisation requirements arising from 300,000 new coronavirus cases per day, but has only 81,094 such units. The Centre and states have been trying to increase ICU beds. As per data furnished to a Group of Ministers on April 9, there were 75,867 ICU beds. More have been added gradual
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Globally, COVID-19 has disrupted lives in an unprecedented fashion and no country has managed to escape ill effects of the pandemic with India being no exception. The current crises have raised questions and exposed shortcomings in the healthcare delivery services in some of the most advanced economies of the world. Yet, as the scientific community across countries strive to find a cure for this virus, there may be a silver lining to this pandemic…focus on health and healthcare in general.