Kalaburagi, June 4 -- Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences has set up a 25-bed COVID ward as a precautionary measure given the rising number of COVID cases in India.

Medical Superintendent at GIMS Hospital, Kalaburagi, Dr Shivakumar CR, says, "As per the guidelines of the state government's health and family welfare department, and the medical education department, we are fully geared up with a set up of 25 beds of which five beds are in the ICU with ventilators, five are high dependency units, five are for pregnant women and patients requiring maternity services, and remaining ten are general beds... We have a labour room and an attached operation theatre... We have sufficient oxygen, and we have deployed adequate human resources. Our...