Karnataka health minister K Sudhakar on Thursday.In addition to this, hospitals with less than 30 beds have been mandated to not admit Covid-19 patients."All hospital beds except those for dialysis patients, mother- childcare and life-threatening diseases to be dedicated for Covid patients in Bengaluru.
All nursing homes and hospitals with up to 30 beds should mandatorily treat non-Covid patients," said Sudhakar."All hospitals in the state that have a bed capacity of more than 30 beds will now have to dedicate 80% of the beds and ICU facility for Covid-19 patients," he added.On oxygen production The state has instructed the steel companies operating in Karnataka to ramp up oxygen production and supply them to hospitals here on a priority.