Authorities gearing up to handle more patients Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Hospital beds earmarked for COVID-19 treatment are fast filling up at government tertiary care hospitals in the district as the number of cases reported is at an all-time high. At the Tiruchi Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital, of a total available 684 beds, only 135 were vacant as of Wednesday. Of the allotted beds, 60 are in the intensive-care unit, of which only five are vacant; 311 are oxygen beds, of which 99 are vacant; and 313 are non-oxygen beds, of which 31 are vacant. The MGMGH had only last week converted the nursing students’ hostel to admit COVID-19 patients, and the students were shifted to the hostels available at the K.A.P. Viswanatham Government Medical College.