COVID-19: Makeshift hospitals to be set up
They will have 2,000 ICU beds and around 1,000 ventilators The State government will set up makeshift or modular hospitals to create 2,000 ICU beds with about 1,000 ventilators within 15 days while Karnataka has sought permission from the Centre to import Remdesivir directly, Health Minister K. Sudhakar said on Friday. Acknowledging shortage of oxygen beds, ICU beds and ventilators, especially in Bengaluru, the Health Minister told reporters that these makeshift hospitals of about 300 beds each will come up in the premises of tertiary hospitals, such as Victoria, Bowring, Rajiv Gandhi Institu...