PHANA launches Search My Bed portal

95 private hospitals have started uploading real-time data on bed availability

The Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes’ Association (PHANA) on Sunday launched a portal — Search My Bed — which will provide real-time information on the availability of beds in private hospitals for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. This has been a long-standing demand from citizens who were otherwise forced to call up private hospitals or knock on their doors to see if there were any beds available for patients. Secretary of the PHANA Rajashekar Y.L. said that 95 private hospitals had already started providing real-time information on bed availability. “In the coming days, more and more hospitals will be enrolled and hospitals will be encouraged to display the data in real time,” he said. With this, citizens will have access to data on available beds with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) via the Central Hospital Bed Management System and the private sector (https://searchmybed.com).