Railway coaches to Ayush clinics, India keeps beds ready with Omicron rise

With Omicron cases on the rise and hospital beds filling fast across the country, various states and the Centre are keeping all the back-up options ready. These include Ayush centres and railway Covid-care coaches on standby mode.

The mainstream infrastructure has already been pushed into action, with hospitals now working to ramp up their Covid wards.

The health ministry said last week that India has 1.8 million isolation beds available across the country, of which almost 500,000 beds are with oxygen support.

It also asked the private healthcare sector to be ‘ready’ and start audits of medicines, oxygen supply and beds.

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