Staff Reporter :
The awaited field hospital for treating Covid-19 patients at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University’s convention center may not be inaugurated on Saturday due to incomplete preparation, sources said.
Authorities of BSMMU said that the equipment necessary for giving medical treatment to the covid patients have not arrived completely. As a result the inauguration of the field
hospital will be delayed for several days.
“Different equipment including ventilator, oxygen concentrator and other logistics are yet to arrive in the center. We are working to inaugurate the field hospital soon,” Professor Dr Md Sharfuddin Ahmed, Vice-Chancellor of the BSMMU, told The New Nation on Friday.
He said that after completion of the preparation for rendering medical treatment to the covid patients, admission of patients will be started.
He, however, has not given any specific date for inaugurating the makeshift hospital.
Earlier, the BSMMU announced to transform its convention center into a 1000-bed field hospital in order to treat the covid patients from Saturday.
Sources said, the Directorate General of Health Services are stepping up measures of increasing hospitals and beds with existing facilities to cope with the worse situation created by the delta variant corona virus in the recent days.
As part of the plan, the 1000-bed field hospital at the BSMMU’s Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Convention Centre in Shahbagh of the capital is supposed is be inaugurated on Saturday.
“We hope to start the field hospital on Saturday to enlarge treatment facilities of the Covid-19 patients,” Professor Dr Md Sharfuddin Ahmed, Vice-Chancellor of the BSMMU, told journalists on July 25.
The VC said, the 1,000-bed makeshift hospital will have about 230 ICU (intensive care unit) beds and 230 HDU (high dependency unit) beds, and all the beds will have central oxygen support.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque on July 25, said, “The Covid-19 infection in the country is on surge. It may result in the hospital bed crises if the rising infections are not contained.”
Health minister said the government has already made some covid dedicated hospitals in the capital.
It also opened Covid-19 units in some other hospitals across the country, he added.
