VARANASI: The Health Department's Diwali emergency arrangements, reported on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, include dedicated operating theatres, specialist duty and reserved beds across government and private hospitals. Residents around Kabir Chaura, Pandeypur, Ramnagar and Bhelupur are among those served by the hospitals named in the preparations.
For families planning around the festival, the practical contact is 108 for the Uttar Pradesh ambulance service. The district administration independently lists that number on its official helpline page. Ambulances are to be positioned at important intersections in urban and rural areas, according to the arrangements described in two local reports.
Residents needing information about a particular hospital can also use the telephone numbers in the district's hospital directory. Those are hospital contacts, rather than a promise that a bed can be booked in advance. The festival preparations concern emergency treatment, including access to investigation and surgery when a patient arrives.
What the emergency preparations cover
The two reports, dated November 4 and November 5, describe 200 beds reserved across government and private hospitals. The named public facilities include Deendayal Upadhyay District Hospital, the divisional hospital at Kabir Chaura, Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital in Ramnagar and Swami Vivekanand Hospital in Bhelupur. The figure describes a combined arrangement, rather than 200 additional beds at each institution.
Physicians, surgeons, eye specialists and skin specialists are included in the emergency deployment. Operating theatres are to remain functional for festival emergencies. The preparations specifically address patients arriving after burns, injuries and other incidents associated with fireworks and fires. This is a description of the department's service planning, rather than treatment advice.
Chief Medical Officer Dr N P Singh said arrangements were being made for beds, operations, tests, treatment and medicines. The divisional hospital's burn ward is to have a dedicated team available. These details concern the readiness of services; they do not establish how many patients will require admission or how many beds will remain vacant at any particular hour.
The distinction matters for people travelling from rural parts of the district. A district-wide reserve is spread across facilities, while a patient's destination and admission depend on the emergency service handling the case. Residents should use the ambulance service or the relevant hospital contact for assistance rather than treating the combined bed figure as live availability.
What residents should do
The district administration's helpline directory lists 108 as Ambulance Helpline UP and separately lists 102 as an ambulance helpline. For the festival deployment described in the reports, 108 is the number specifically identified for requesting help. The directory also lists 112 as the police helpline.
For hospital-specific enquiries, the official hospital directory gives the following public contacts and locations. The spellings below follow the directory's identification of the institutions. Callers should explain which facility or service they are seeking, particularly where a locality contains more than one hospital.
- Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital, Pandeypur: 0542-2508017.
- Shri Shiv Prasad Gupt Divisional District Hospital, Kabir Chaura: 0542-2214723.
- Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, Ramnagar: 0542-2668522.
- Sir Sunderlal Hospital, BHU, Lanka: 0542-2368547.
BHU appears here because it is listed in the district's public directory. The festival reports' named hospital arrangements should not be read as confirmation of a new BHU operating schedule. Likewise, the directory telephone numbers identify institutions; they are not separate ambulance dispatch numbers or a newly announced festival control room.
The district directory separately identifies District Government Women Hospital at Kabir Chaura. It is a separate entry from Shri Shiv Prasad Gupt Divisional District Hospital in the same locality. When asking for directions or assistance, use the full hospital name so the intended institution is clear to the person handling the enquiry.
Keep emergency arrangements separate from routine visits
The reports describe emergency investigation and operation arrangements for the festival. They do not supply a department-by-department outpatient timetable, a list of private hospitals, or a public reservation system for the earmarked beds. Anyone arranging a routine appointment should confirm that service with the hospital concerned rather than infer its hours from emergency staffing.
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