Private hospitals to reserve 20% of beds for COVID-19 patients
The Hindu
This’ll be scaled up to 40%, if cases rise
In the backdrop of cases and deaths rising, the civic body has decided that 20% of beds in all private medical establishments will be reserved for patients referred by the government or the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). This will later be scaled up to 40%, should the trend continue. The State government issued an order to this effect on Sunday. The BBMP has already held two rounds of meetings with the private medical establishments to discuss bed allocation. When the cases had peaked last year, 50% of the beds in private medical establishments were reserved for patients referred by the civic body. This was scaled back when the case load dropped.More Related News