Occupancy of hospital beds by Covid-positive patients continues to rise in Meghalaya, with the figure now touching 10 percent, a doubling of where the state was last week.
On January 2 just 18 hospital beds reserved for Covid-19 patients in Meghalaya were occupied. That figure increased to 50 last Sunday and now stands at 108. While this is still low, representing 10 percent of the 1,081 beds across the state set aside for Covid patients, it is a steep rise.
At the height of the second wave last year, bed occupancy was close to 80 percent.
Hospitals in Shillong account for 104 out of the 108 Covid in-patients (the other four are split evenly between Tura and Nongpoh).
Those hospitals with double digit figures are Military Hospital (17), NEIGRIHMS (15), Shillong Civil Hospital (14), Ganesh Das (12), Nazareth (11) and BSF Hospital (10).
