{"id":8971,"date":"2021-08-10T02:54:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/georgia-short-of-hospital-beds-as-covid-19-cases-surge\/"},"modified":"2021-08-10T02:54:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:54:45","slug":"georgia-short-of-hospital-beds-as-covid-19-cases-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/georgia-short-of-hospital-beds-as-covid-19-cases-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia short of hospital beds as COVID-19 cases surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Georgia-short-of-hospital-beds-as-COVID-19-cases-surge.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Georgia is facing a serious deficit of hospital beds, the country&#8217;s Health Minister <strong>Ekaterine Tikaradze<\/strong> told journalists.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/en\/\">Report<\/a> quotes her as saying the complex epidemiological state has affected the hospital sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Health Ministry is trying to expand the bed fund. No patient stays beyond our attention today. However, all measures should be intensified to prevent an increase in infections,&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Deputy Minister of Health <strong>Tamar Gabunia<\/strong>, nearly 94% of beds designated for coronavirus patients in Georgian hospitals are filled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The healthcare sector has faced maximal load today. We plan to mobilize additional beds. We have already mobilized 7,000 beds, and 500 more beds will be added this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '800789640666009');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/report.az\/en\/health\/georgia-short-of-hospital-beds-as-covid-19-cases-surge\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Georgia is facing a serious deficit of hospital beds, the country&#8217;s Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze told journalists. Report quotes her as saying the complex epidemiological state has affected the hospital sector. &#8220;The Health Ministry is trying to expand the bed fund. No patient stays beyond our attention today. However, all measures should be intensified&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/georgia-short-of-hospital-beds-as-covid-19-cases-surge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Georgia short of hospital beds as COVID-19 cases surge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2875,211,210,32,1249,2874,2755],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","tag-beds","tag-cases","tag-covid19","tag-georgia","tag-hospital","tag-short","tag-surge","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}