India, Jan. 30 -- The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has reserved 40 hospital beds, including 10 with ventilators, for treatment of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) cases even as the facility lacks regular monitoring by experts.

The 40 beds allocated at the Kamala Nehru Hospital (KNH) includes 15 for females, 15 for males and 10 with ventilator support. The administration has taken 15-bed ICU facility inside KNH campus. The facility had been outsourced to a private firm, a couple of years back, said officials.

According to experts, a 10-bed ventilator facility to handle GBS patients will require experts like neuro physicians, intensivists, assistant intensivists, infectious diseases physicians, physicians, critical care consultants, phys...