Noida: Gautam Budh Nagar district magistrate on Monday recommended to the director general of medical education and training, Lucknow, to provide 340 additional Covid beds for Sharda Hospital. This is in addition to the 380 beds notified for the facility last month. Apart from that, 200 Covid beds will be added at the Noida International Institute of Medical Sciences (NIIMS), officials said.
Currently, the district has two government Covid facilities 250-bed Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS), Greater Noida, and 168-bed Noida Covid Hospital (NCH), Sector 39. While GIMS has an 80-bed ICU, NCH has 38 ICU beds. NCH also has 200 additional beds on standby. Both hospitals currently have an occupancy rate of 85-90% and with more patients seeking hospitalisation, officials said, efforts are on to prepare additional beds.
Ghaziabad: To register their protests over the pathetic condition of arterial roads in Indirapuram’s Ahimsa Khand 2, some residents took out a march i.
GREATER NOIDA: The Noida International Airport project is fast gaining momentum.
The subsidiary of Zurich AG, appointed to develop the greenfield airport, on Monday floated tenders to commence construction work.
The company, Yamuna International Airport Private Limited (YIAPL), has begun the process of selecting the contractors for engineering and construction of the terminal building.
Last week ,the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) initiated the process of empanelling agencies which will manage, organise and execute big-ticket events on its behalf. While the date of the foundation stone laying ceremony is yet to be finalised, sources revealed that an agreement has been reached between the two sides to get things going on the ground. “We expect that the project-affected people will start shifting to Jewar Bangar by mid-June. Post that, construction work can start,” an Authority official told TOI.
However, activists admit that verification would be a tough task now as many would have lost their crucial documents like Aadhaar card in the fire
NOIDA: Mithilesh Kumar, a father of four, had saved Rs 2 lakh in cash for the May wedding of his eldest daughter but he lost all his savings as well as some gold and other household items in the fire that broke out in the slum cluster of Behlolpur.
A scrap collector, Mithilesh has lost senses and is hurling abuses at the mediapersons and the politicians and asking who will return his savings. He is among the 1,000-old people of 166 families who have been rendered homeless in the massive blaze that engulfed the slum cluster on Sunday afternoon.
Noida/Ghaziabad: Both districts recorded their highest single-day Covid tally for this year on Monday. While Ghaziabad reported 187 fresh cases, in Gautam Budh Nagar, the figure was 239. Ghaziabad also reported one death. According to officials, a 54-year-old woman from Lal Kuan, who was admitted to Santosh Hospital on April 8, passed away on Sunday. She had hypertension and diabetes. This is the second death in Ghaziabad this month and the toll is now 104. The total number of cases in the district stands at 28,377.
About 1,055 cases have been detected since April 1, officials said. Currently there are 926 active cases and 441 people are recovering at home.