MARGAO
The district administration has sent around 35 beds to the ESI hospital, Margao to enhance its bed capacity as the hospital was packed with patients for the second day on Friday.
Around 201 patients were undergoing treatment at the ESI hospital as on Friday evening, even as the hospital management has a task cut out on Friday “ to assemble the beds that have been sent to the hospital by the district administration.
While the ESI hospital had enhanced its bed capacity to 220 at the height of the Covid pandemic last year, the management is planning to put as many beds as possible in the hospital to meet the growing bed requirements from patients.
Around 196 general patients and six diabetes patients are presently undergoing treatment at the ESI hospital on Friday evening.
After the hospital was packed to its capacity on Thursday evening, a number of patients had to return back disappointed as they were told there were no more beds to accommodate them in the hospital. Sources in the know said the South Goa district hospital is planning to increase the bed capacity to 500-plus to accommodate beds to accommodate the increasing number of patients coming into the hospital.
