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Updated : January 21, 2021 02:53 PM IST

The Delhi government has reduced intensive care unit (ICU) bed reservation to 25 percent for COVID-19 patients in private hospitals. Viren Shetty, Executive Director and Group COO of Narayana Health discussed this and more.

“From what used to be 50 percent is right now down to 25 percent and for hospitals that are less than 100 beds. They don’t need to reserve any beds for COVID-19 at all. This is a reflection on the fact that hospitals aren’t seeing that many COVID-19 patients. This is a very positive trend for us and we hope that this continues. COVID-19 is not a very big business for us,” he said.

Business is back to pre COVID-19 levels for most of the Narayana Health hospitals. “The run rate looks quite positive, barring any unforeseen circumstances or any new strain we do believe that the worst of COVID -19 is behind us,” he said.

“Our hospitals are running full right now. There are many more diseases in the country outside of COVID-19, a huge amount of heart diseases, oncology and so on and with the permission of the government, we have not kept those beds empty. They will be available should the need arise but in the meantime as long as the footfalls are there, we have to use it for the patients that are filling up our emergency rooms right now,” Shetty mentioned.

In terms of COVID-19 vaccination, he said, “This is something that should get complete by this week or early next week at most. We have seen some amount of resistance, not to getting vaccinated itself. We have certain senior doctors who believe that they can wait because they want to prioritise their colleagues, there are other doctors who have been infected prior and want to wait until the antibody resistance comes down and then get vaccinated. So it is not that our doctors or nurses do not want to get vaccinated, they just want to wait for it and put other people further ahead in the line.”

On the vaccine rollout, he said, “we have been speaking with as many people as we can to for the government to allow us to start procuring vaccines in large quantities direct from the manufacturer. We are in discussion with the Serum Institute and as and when the government gives the go-ahead, we will be placing the orders for millions of vials of vaccines that we want to start rolling out across the country.”

For full interview, watch the video.

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