guwahati the assam government has readied the covid treatment infrastructure to tackle any emergency in case another wave sweeps the statethe state health department conducted mock drills in tandem with the union health ministry which had directed the states to assess preparedness to deal with any eventuality assam however has not reported any covid case for nearly one montha spokesperson of the assam national health mission said over 1200 government health institutions including nine medical college and hospitals 24 district hospitals and 16 subdivisional civil hospitals carried out the mock drill simultaneously on tuesday the preparedness at the rootlevel was also gauged with 204 community health centres 1011 primary health centres and 177 private health institutions joining the mock drill across the districts the drill is to ensure operational readiness for management of covid19 with special focus on health infrastructure oxygen plants ventilators logistics icu beds consumables among others he saidstate health minister keshab mahanta reviewed the preparedness by overseeing the mock drill in tezpur medical college hospital in northern assam the readiness of ambulances to transport covid patients was also assessed during the statewide exercisethe gauhati medical college hospital which treated 37000 covid patients in the last three waves of the pandemic is ready with the best available infrastructure total 156 beds including 100 icu beds and pediatric icu is ready said abhijit sarma the medical superintendent of gmch