Indoor stadium in Raipur converted into COVID care centre within four days ANI | Updated: Apr 13, 2021 20:54 IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 13 (ANI): The Raipur Smart City and Raipur Municipal Corporation set up a 370-bed COVID-19 hospital in the city s indoor stadium within four days amid the growing number of cases of the infection.
The COVID-19 facility is equipped with 130 ventilators, 70 normal beds, 216 oxygen concentrators, and 120 oxygen pipelines. We had received instructions from the Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel that the situation is such that we need more oxygen beds. He had given instruction to change the indoor stadium into a complete oxygen facility, Saurabh Kumar, Commissioner, Raipur Municipal Corporation, told ANI.
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Union health minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday accused some states of adopting “deplorable” methods to “distract attention from their failures and spread panic among the people”. This came soon after at least six states – Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Odisha and Telangana – raised concerns about vaccine shortages.
In a strongly-worded statement, Vardhan said allegations of vaccine shortage were “completely baseless”. He called them “irresponsible statements” that had the potential to “mislead the public” amid the coronavirus crisis.
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Castigating the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government, the minister said the state’s “lackadaisical attitude” has singularly hampered the entire country’s efforts to fight the pandemic. He also accused the state’s leadership of “happily sleeping at the wheels”. “It is shocking to see how th
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Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, in a no holds barred attack on the Opposition-led State of Maharashtra, has accused it of demanding universal vaccination for all adults to cover up its “poor vaccination efforts”.
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