Makeshift hospitals to be set up soon: Sudhakar

Minister says Centre’s permission sought to import 2 lakh vials of Remdesivir directly

The State government will set up makeshift or modular hospitals to create 2,000 ICU beds capacity that will have about 800 to 1,000 ventilators within 15 days, and has sought the Centre’s permission to import Remdesivir directly, Health Minister K. Sudhakar said on Friday. Acknowledging shortage of oxygen beds, ICU beds and ventilators, especially in Bengaluru, the Health Minister told reporters that these make shift hospitals of about 250 to 300 beds each will come up on the premises of tertiary hospitals such as Victoria, Bowring, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases, Jayadeva, Kidwai, and Nimhans. “Each makeshift hospital will have about 100 ventilator beds.”