It took six minutes for a patient arriving in an ambulance to be admitted to the ICU at SevenHills Hospital. The civic-run hospital managed to reduce the time from 12 to 15 minutes to 6 minutes during a drill held on Tuesday. SevenHills Hospital was among the city hospitals that carried out drills, as directed by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, to check the preparedness in view of the global COVID-19 surge. 

SevenHills Hospital, the biggest civic-run dedicated COVID hospital, held the drill at 3 pm. A dummy patients was brought to the hospital and shifted to the Intensive Care Unit ward. Following this, the doctors checked the patient’s health parameters such as blood pressure, oxygen level and body temperature in three minutes.