Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health, said government has excluded use of general hospitals and health centre IVs for treatment of Covid-19 cases to ensure continuity of care with regular services without disruption.
Ministry of Health had estimated and prepared 3,200 isolation beds and 378 ICU beds at national referral hospitals, regional referral hospitals, general hospitals and health centre IVs.
"The Ministry of Health is now in the process of expanding additional bed capacity at national referral hospitals and regional referral hospitals using mobile hospitals in open spaces next to the hospitals for auxiliary care," Dr Aceng said on Saturday.
Dr Aceng said each of the fourteen and two national referral hospitals have prepared 30 isolation beds giving a total of 480 beds and each of the hospitals is now being equipped with 10 ICU beds bringing the total to 160 ICU beds across regional referral hospitals.
The Ministry of Health plans to increase the capacity of 13 regional referral hospitals by erecting a 270 bed mobile hospital per regional referral.
