Amid rise in Covid-19 cases, 27 ventilators not functional at hospital in Beed
The administration of Swami Ramanand Teerth Medical College has decided to procure additional ventilators and borrow 10 more devices from a COVID19 centre located in Lokhandi Sawargaon of the district, a senior official;
Aurangabad: At a time when Maharashtra is witnessing a rise in COVID-19 cases, at least 27 ventilators at a government-run medical college and hospital in Ambejogai of Beed district have stopped functioning, an official said on Thursday.
The administration of Swami Ramanand Teerth Medical College has decided to procure additional ventilators and borrow 10 more devices from a COVID-19 centre located in Lokhandi Sawargaon of the district, a senior official told PTI.
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The college is a treatment centre for COVID-19 patients and those suffering from other ailments, it was stated.
"Our medical facility has 76 ventilators, of which 20 are reserved for non-COVID-19 patients and 27 are not functioning," he said.
The district's Guardian Minister Dhananjay Munde has been notified about the state of ventilators and has committed to help, the facility''s dean Dr Shivaji Sukre said.
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