200-bed hospital inaugurated to lessen COVID burden on Bowring and other hospitals in Bengaluru
The BBMP that initiated the construction of a corporation hospital on Broadway Road in Shivajinagar a few years ago was able to complete it and throw it open to the public at the time of the pandemic. The 200-bed capacity hospital was constructed at a cost of Rs 24.68 crore and Infosys foundation supported with Rs 11 crore for equipment.
During the times of the increasing number of COVID-19 cases and population in Shivajinagar, Shanthinagar and Pulakeshinagar and surroundings finding it difficult to find treatment and beds to treat emergency COVID cases, the BBMP has made a 200-bed hospital ready for use.
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The hospital was inaugurated by CM BS Yediyurappa in the presence of Bengaluru mayor Gautham Kumar Jain and Shivajinagar MLA Rizwan Arshad.
The hospital originally was designed as a specialty heart care centre but due to the pandemic, the facility will be used to treat COVID-19 patients until the situation normalises.
