<span style="color: #222222;">In Gujarat, the 900-bed dedicated Covid Care hospital being set up at Gujarat University's Convention and Exhibition Centre in Ahmedabad will conduct a dry run today.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Dedicated Covid care hospital being set up in collaboration with the DRDO and State Government is likely to start admitting patients by this weekend.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports that the work of the hospital has been completed on a war footing basis.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The dedicated Covid care hospital with 900 beds facility is coming up in Ahmedabad at a time when Covid19 cases in the city are piling up like the mountain.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">If dry run goes well, the facility is expected to ease the burden on public hospitals that are witnessing long queues of Covid patients.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The dedicated Covid Care Hospital with 900 oxygen-equipped beds will have ICU facilities with ventilators on 150 beds.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The hospital has a provision for expansion of 500 more beds.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Gujarat government has already started the recruitment of medical and healthcare staff including 200 staff nurses to support the medical officers of DRDO.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has added 29 new areas in the micro-containment zone following the detection of new cases</span><br />''  <br />