Delhi: Private hospitals ask for govt for more manpower, time for increasing COVID bed capacity
"We have limited manpower, and the bed expansion has been ordered. It will difficult to get extra manpower, especially at this time since many heathcare workers are themselves falling ill after getting infected by COVID-19. So, we have requested the Delhi government for some paramedic and other staff," a source at the hospital said.;
New Delhi - A leading private hospital has requested the Delhi government to provide it with paramedic and other heathcare workers to supplement its existing staff in manning the additional COVID beds being added to the facility, sources said on Tuesday.
The request has been sent by Fortis Hospital authorities nearly a week after the city government had ordered 22 hospitals to enhance bed capacity by 20 per cent to add a little over 2,000 additional COVID beds in total for patients.
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Fortis Group''s three hospitals located at Shalimar Bagh, Vasant Kunj and Okhla are among these 22 facilities.
"We have limited manpower, and the bed expansion has been ordered. It will difficult to get extra manpower, especially at this time since many heathcare workers are themselves falling ill after getting infected by COVID-19. So, we have requested the Delhi government for some paramedic and other staff," a source at the hospital said.
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