PMC reserves 40 beds with only one on-call expert

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has reserved 40 hospital beds, including 10 with ventilators, for treatment of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) cases even as the facility lacks regular monitoring by experts.

- Vicky Pathare

PUNE:

The 40 beds allocated at the Kamala Nehru Hospital (KNH) includes 15 for females, 15 for males and 10 with ventilator support. The administration has taken 15-bed ICU facility inside KNH campus. The facility had been outsourced to a private firm, a couple of years back, said officials.

According to experts, a 10-bed ventilator facility to handle GBS patients will require experts like neuro physicians, intensivists, assistant intensivists, infectious diseases physicians, physicians, critical care consultants, physiotherapists, and trained nurses to handle cases.