NRI Doctor Offers 500-Bed Manesar Hospital To Govt Exclusively To Treat Covid-19 Cases For Free
In the coming days, India will need thousands, if not more than that hospital beds as the cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) continue to go up in the country.As India wages a war against the deadly pandemic, an Indian-born entrepreneur has offered a hospital exclusively for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.?
Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil, a radiologist by qualification and the chairman and managing director of VPS Healthcare Group has offered a 500-bed multi specialty hospital in Manesar to combat the dreaded virus.?
UAE-based VPS Healthcare which also has three hospitals in Delhi NCR under the name Medeor Hospital has offered its 500-bed hospital in Manesar for the exclusive treatment of Covid-19 patients for free.?
According to VPS Healthcare, the hospital in Manesar has facilities like state-of-the-art critical care and pulmonology department, isolation rooms, ventilators and other emergency services.The hospital also has formed a dedicated task force comprising specialist doctors, nurses, and other medical staff to combat the pandemic and take care of the affected patients.
"To help support the efforts of Government of India we would like to offer our Medeor Hospital located in Manesar for the treatment of Covid-19 patients," Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil, said in a letter to the Ministry of Health.?
"We have already informed the officials about the facilities and services at our hospital. We are fully prepared and are waiting for an official nod from the government," Nihaj G Mohammed, Chief Operating Officer Medeor Hospitals (Delhi), said.?
The hospital also said that in the past also VPS Healthcare has partnered with governments in fighting epidemics. VPS had worked with the Government of Kerala during the 2018 NipahVirus outbreak and had airlifted medicines when the state was facing an acute scarcity of essential medicines to treat infected patients.?
According to Brookings India, there are 7,13,986 total government hospital beds available in India. This amounts to 0.55 beds per 1000 population. The elderly population is especially vulnerable, given more complications that are reported for patients in this age group. The availability of beds for elderly population in India is 5.18 beds per 1000 population.?
It also said that an epidemic like coronavirus can very quickly complicate the problem even further. An estimated 5-10% of total patients will require critical care in the form of ventilator support.
In a worst-case scenario, according to one estimate at least, we may end up with 2.2 million cases in India by May 15, which implies that we will need 110,000 to 220,000 ventilators.
