Syed Shemul Parvez :
The country’s largest DNCC dedicated corona hospital will be officially inaugurated at Mohakhali kitchen market in the city on Sunday.
There are 100 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds and 112 High Dependency Unit (HDU) beds in the hospital.
Besides, there is also a central oxygen supply for the covid patients.
According to the Health Ministry officials, the hospital is being set up in the Dhaka North City Corporation’s (DNCC) Mohakhali Raw Market (six-storey) vacant building with an area of 1,80,560 square feet.
Until then, the market was used as a corona isolation center as well as a corona testing lab for expatriates.
Though there is a corona hospital , the corona Isolation Center and the Corona Testing Laboratory for expatriates will also run separately in the same building now.
According to the Department of Health, the Ministry of Health has deputed 500 doctors, 700 nurses, 700 staff and huge medicines and equipment to render medical services in the specialized hospital.
Already more than a hundred doctors and two hundred nurses have joined the work.
The rest will join the work by Saturday.
However, the hospital will be run by the Bangladesh Army, the source said.
Director of DNCC Dedicated Corona Hospital Brigadier General AKM Nasir Uddin told the media, though it was scheduled to be inaugurated on Saturday (Today), some work still remains to be done. That is why it will be inaugurated on Sunday one day later.
At present, only corona patients will be treated in the hospital. However, no operation would be done, he added. Notable that on August 9 last year, visiting the Corona Isolation Center, DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam announced the transformation of the raw market in Mohakhali into a 500-bed urban hospital.
Eight months after the announcement, the DNCC Dedicated Corona Hospital is starting treatment for the covid patients.
About the recent burning reports on the Bashundhara Field Hospital vanished, set up as an isolation centre for 2000 patients at the height of the pandemic in 2020, the DG said: “The hospital cost is more than Tk60 lakh per month. But it had only 15 to 20 patients.
“As the hospital had a few number of patients, it became difficult to bear the cost. So, we had to shut the hospital down. We shifted the equipment from there to hospitals across the country.
