255 COVID-19 beds kept ready across 17 teaching hospitals in Andhra Pradesh

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Andhra Pradesh maintains 255 COVID-19 beds across 17 teaching hospitals, ensuring readiness with stocked masks, PPE kits, and medicines. Local procurement powers have been delegated to hospital superintendents to speed emergency supply acquisition as 12 patients are hospitalized and 11 are isolating at home.

The Health Department has stocked masks, PPE kits and medicines, and allowed hospital superintendents to buy emergency supplies locally without waiting for State-level procurement; 12 patients are in hospital and 11 in home isolation