Staff Reporter
Around 298475 corona patients are recovered in the public sector hospitals being run under the control of Specialized and Primary & Secondary Healthcare departments, while 799 patients are recovered during the last 24 hours.
This was disclosed by Barrister Nabeel Ahmed Awan Secretary Specialized Healthcare Punjab on Tuesday.
He said that 7583 beds were reserved in all govt. hospitals for corona patients, out of which 6300 beds were unoccupied.
Likewise, 1640 beds reserved in govt. hospitals of the provincial metropolis and 1261 beds were vacant so far.
The Secretary SHC&MED said that in view of the surging corona pandemic, the department had arranged 3344 beds in Isolation wards of all govt. hospitals in the
province, out of which, 2986 beds were vacant.
However, 429 beds for corona patients are reserved in isolation wards set up in govt.
hospitals of Lahore and 371 beds are unoccupied. In addition, 3454 beds are also reserved in HDU for patients suffering from Covid-19 in all the hospitals of Punjab government and 2755 beds are vacant while, in hospitals of Lahore, 927 beds reserved in HDU and 697 beds are unoccupied, Nabeel Awan added.
The Secretary SHC said the health department had arranged 790 ventilators for corona patients in all hospitals of the provincial government, of which 231 ventilators were under use while 559 were unoccupied.
Around 284 ventilators are reserved in Lahore hospitals, of which 91 are occupied and 193 ventilators are vacant, said Nabeel Awan.
