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India will need 5 lakh ICU beds, 3 5 lakh medical staff in next few weeks, says leading surgeon | India News

PUNE: Forecasting that the Covid-19 pandemic is only going to get worse, noted surgeon Dr Devi Prasad Shetty has said India will need an extra 5 lakh ICU beds, 2 lakh nurses and 1.5 lakh doctors in the next few weeks, and also suggested radical solutions to meet the mountainous challenge. At present, India has only 75,000 to 90,000 ICU beds and almost all are already occupied - when the second wave of the pandemic hasn t even reached its peak yet, he said. India is reporting about 3.5 lakh cases a day, and some experts say the number could go up to 5 lakh cases daily at its peak.

India will need 5 lakh ICU beds, 3 5 lakh medical staff in next few weeks, says leading surgeon

22763 2 Even before the start of the pandemic, government hospitals across the country had a shortage of 78 per cent of medical specialists. PTI Pune, April 29 Forecasting that the Covid pandemic is only going to get worse, noted surgeon Dr Devi Prasad Shetty has said that India will need an extra 5 lakh ICU beds, 2 lakh nurses and 1.5 lakh doctors in the next few weeks, and also suggested radical solutions to meet the challenge. At present, India has only 75,000 to 90,000 ICU beds and almost all are already occupied - when the second wave of the pandemic hasn t even reached its peak yet, he said.

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