HYDERABAD: The Central government is taking all possible steps to ensure oxygen availability at hospitals across the country, Union minister of state for home G. Kishan Reddy said here on Sunday. At the same time, he said, the Telangana state government should give out correct figures on the daily Covid-19 deaths and cases.
Speaking to the media after a visit to the Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (Tims) — the 1,000-bed Covid19-only hospital at Gachibowli — the Union minister said that the Centre has provided 200 ventilators exclusively to TIMS. “There is no problem with ventilators in TIMS,” he said.
Kishan Reddy had been advised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit government hospitals in Telangana state and check the Covid-related situations there.
The minister said about 600 Covid-19 patients are being treated at Tims and 100 patients are in ICU while 50 people are in general wards. NRB equipment for oxygen is also available, but there is a…