CM Yogi Adityanath inaugurates 160-bed Covid hospital in UP's Gonda

LUCKNOW: A 160 bed Covid-19 hospital was inaugurated in Gonda on Thursday by chief minister Yogi Adityanath who said it will ensure good care to people contracting novel coronavirus infection in east UP.
CM Yogi Adityanath also dedicated a 300-bed hospital worth Rs 32.37 crore to public, and said one 300-bed Covid hospital is being constructed in Noida also.
“The Covid-19 hospital at Devipatan will serve people of nearby districts and provide them good quality medical care.The Gonda Covid hospital would be linked digitally with SGPGI. Officials should ensure adequate staff so that testing is carried out in two shifts,” the CM said, while thanking the Tata Trust and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the hospital.
The people of aspirational districts like Bahraich, Shravasti, Balrampur would greatly benefit from the facility, he added.
CM Yogi directed officials to start Level-2 Covid hospitals in Shravasti and Balrampur also.
He said three medical colleges are being constructed in Devipatan division, including one as a satellite centre in Balrampur, and one medical college is coming up in Gonda.
“The number of corona cases and death rate in UP is much less than many countries in the world. When the first Covid case was reported in UP in March, the state was equipped to test just 60 samples a day. Now we are testing up to 1.40 lakh samples a day,” Yogi said.
Divisional commissioner SVS Rangarao said 1,96,562 samples have been tested in the division till now of which 5,650 had tested positive. Out of these, 4,065 patients have recovered.