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RBI's Rs 50,000 crore liquidity facility can increase hospital bed capacity by 20%: Crisil

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Crisil Ratings said on Friday the Rs 50,000 crore liquidity window offered by RBI to banks under priority sector lending to augment COVID-19 healthcare infrastructure will help raise treatment capacity, availability of medicines, and medical equipment. Hospitals can be among the biggest beneficiaries as incremental funding can potentially increase bed capacity in the country by 15 to 20 per cent, it said.