A day after Hindustan Times reported that eight ventilators were lying unused at the civil hospital in Phase 6, the health department handed them over to two private hospitals. Four units were given to Max Hospital in Phase 6 and the other four to Fortis Hospital in Phase 8. Mohali civil surgeon Dr Adarshpal Kaur said, “We have handed over the ventilators to private hospitals to use during Covid period. The district has around 30 private hospitals with 256 ICU beds. The civil surgeon said that the civil hospital needed permanent anaesthetic personnel besides other facilities, for which a request had been submitted with the health department.

Source: Hindustan Times April 30, 2021 21:00 UTC