Another Dedicated COVID Hospital Added To serve people in Capital City

Bhubaneswar: As coronavirus cases rising above the 2,000 mark in the city, the Odisha Government on Monday opened another Dedicated COVID-19 Hospital (DCH). This new hospital has a provision of 150 beds including 30 ICU beds and 21 high dependency units (HDU)

Aditya Ashwini Hospitals, one of the well-known hospital in Chandrasekharpur area of the state capital, has been converted into a Dedicated COVID-19 Hospital increasing the total beds in the DCHs in the city to 1,175 and the total ICU beds to 115.

Bhubaneswar has so far reported 2,150 COVID-19 cases of which 1,125 are active cases, while 1,011 people have recovered from the disease and 12 have died.

Dedicated COVID-19 Hospitals (DCHs) in Bhubaneswar

The DCH category health-care facilities are meant to treat serious and critical COVID patients.

• The Aditya Ashwini Hospitals has got 150  beds including 30 ICU beds
• The KIMS COVID Hospital has got 500 beds including 45 ICU beds
• The IMS-SUM Hospital has got 525 beds and 25 ICU beds.

COVID Care Hospitals (CHCs) in Bhubaneswar

The CHCs are for for the treatment of mild symptomatic patients.

• The COVID Health Centre (CHC) at Urban Community Health Centre, Patia with 60 bed
• Another 50 beded CHC is coming up soon at Urban Community Health Centre, Dumduma

COVID Care Centres (CCCs) in Bhubaneswar

The city has COVID Care Centres (CCC) for asymptomatic and very mild symptomatic patients.

• High-Tech Medical has 550 beds under this category
• The SIDBI Jaydev Vihar has 40 beds to treat patients.

COVID Care Homes (CCHs) in Bhubaneswar

The COVID Care Homes (CCHs) are being planned for three administrative zones of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area and these CCHs will be developed with the contribution from the MLA Local Area Development (MLALAD) Fund of the respective MLAs of the city. These CCHs will have 50 beds each.