Uttar Pradesh: Spread across eight floors with its own diagnostic facility, dialysis unit, and blood bank, the Chief Minister also reviewed the facilities at the hospital that have come up in collaboration with the Tata Trusts and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
District Magistrate Suhas L.Y. said once fully operational, the hospital would be the largest State-run COVID-19 facility in the State. He said the hospital will start with around 200 beds, catering to symptomatic patients, and subsequently, 200 more beds will be added for infected persons with mild symptoms.
Located in Sector 39, it was originally mooted as a district hospital. It will function as the premier health facility in the district after the pandemic is over. The construction of the building was completed in 2019 by the Noida Authority.
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At present, Noida has GIMS, Child PGI and Sharda Hospital as its government-run COVID-19 care facilities, besides private hospitals. The hospital staff will include 22 doctors 9 13 from CMO establishment, 9 from Lucknow headquarters of NHM, 46 nurses, 22 from GB Nagar CMO establishment, 24 from Lucknow NHM, 33 health workers and 42 other staff members.
Flagship COVID hospital and new health Headquarter will have 8 floors. The ground floor will be an outpatient department, reception and registration and billing. The first floor will have a 17-bed ICU, 9 beds emergency room, a dialysis unit, blood bank, ICU equipped with 10 fixed ventilators and one portable ventilator for now. The second floor is the diagnostic level. CT scan, pathology lab, ultrasound and X-ray rooms.
Third and fourth floors will have a 200-bed L1 facility meant for mildly symptomatic patients. Equipped with an oxygen line, although this section is still in process. The fifth and sixth floors will have L2 COVID wards with 66 beds on each floor for symptomatic or critical patients and those in need of oxygen support and advanced care.
The fifth floor has a 6-bed high dependency unit. The seventh floor is centralised kitchen and refrigerator storage. It will also have a staff dining area and 15 offices for the health department. The eighth floor is the administrative section of the hospital, doctors cabins and office of the chief medical officer.
