UP Government to set up COVID-19 Hospitals in 51 medical colleges across state

The Government of Uttar Pradesh has said that it will set up hospitals for the treatment of COVID-19 patients in 51 medical colleges across the state. The decision about the same was taken on Monday during a video conference which was presided over by the state’s medical education minister. The same was intimated via an official release by the State Government.

In the 51 said medical colleges where the Coronavirus hospitals are to be set up, as of now, there are 4500 isolation and quarantine beds to treatment of patients infected with Coronavirus. The Government issued instructions to increase the number of beds to 11,000 within a week’s time. In addition to this the State Government also issued directives to have a minimum of 20 isolation beds and 2 ventilators in each of the medical colleges. The maximum capacity allotted every medical college is 200 isolation beds and 20 ventilators.

The release also said that the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences in the state’s capital, Lucknow, the Government is setting up a COVID-19 hospital with 210 isolation beds and 80 to 100 ventilators for the treatment of patients under high risk. A spokesperson from the Government said that a total of 228 cases under Section 188 of the IPC have been lodged so far in the districts where Section 144 has been imposed. The spokesman also added that a total of 10,754 vehicles were challenged and 645 others have been seized so far.