Cyclone Tauktae: Gujarat hospitals get power back-up, 35 green corridors for oxygen supply

As extremely severe cyclonic storm Tauktae neared Gujarat, the state government has created 35 green corridors to ensure uninterrupted oxygen supply to hospitals and arrangements to provide power back-up in all 1,400 Covid hospitals across the state.

Chief Minister Vijay Rupani told mediapersons on Monday, “We have made arrangements for power back-up in all hospitals… As many as 661 teams of electricity department teams have been deployed… 174 ICU on wheels have been put on stand-by, 607 vehicles of 108 ambulance service on stand-by for Covid patients.” Additionally, 531 teams of health department too have been deployed across the state.

The Gujarat Medical Education Research Society (GMERS) Sola in Ahmedabad has allocated and provisioned two wards with a capacity of 40 beds separately at its trauma centre, to treat cyclone-affected persons, if need be.