Set up dedicated wards for Covid-19: Health Ministry tells central ministries, PSUs
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The Union Health Ministry has advised all central ministries to ask hospitals under their control or PSUs to set up dedicated hospital wards or separate blocks within hospitals for Covid care.
To augment hospital infrastructure for management of severe cases of coronavirus, the Union Health Ministry has advised all central ministries to ask hospitals under their control or PSUs to set up dedicated hospital wards or separate blocks within hospitals for Covid care. The central ministries have also been advised that details of such dedicated hospital wards or blocks be provided to the public. The move comes as India battles a massive surge in coronavirus cases. India has clocked a record 2,17,353 Covid-19 cases and 1,185 deaths due to infection in the past 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry, taking the caseload in the country to over 1.42 crore. India crossed the 2-lakh mark in the daily Covid-19 cases on Thursday, for the first time since the pandemic began in the country back in 2020.More Related News