SHORTAGE OF BEDS FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS IN WEST BENGAL
SHORTAGE OF BEDS FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS IN WEST BENGAL
In West Bengal, the Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission requested the people to knock them if the private hospital rejects the COVID-19 patents to admit because of the shortage of beds.
Said by the Healthcare institutes that for a huge number of non-COVID and COVID patients coming for admission they are getting a problem of beds
Several hospitals (private) said that the situation was going very bad just because of the number of non-COVID patients, they could not grow the number of beds for the COVID-19 patients at a point.
On Friday the commission said in an appeal to people: “All are requested to bring to our notice if there is any refusal of admission due to non vacancy in any CE (clinical establishment) so that the matter may be taken to resolve and redirect where admission can take place.”
Against a private hospital for refusal, the official of the commission has a complaint.
Some private hospital officials in the city said that COVID-19 beds are especially for those who are in a critical place.
On Friday, the Apollo Gleneagles hospital has no bed for COVID-19. The official of the hospital said: “We have 38 Covid beds, out of which 18 are ICU beds. All beds are occupied. We are working on adding 18 ICU beds soon.”
On Friday at Belle Vue Clinic the 116 COVID beds were occupied. Pradip Tondon (the chief executive officer of Belle Vue Clinic) said: “A few Covid patients were refused admission because all our Covid beds are occupied. We will not be able to increase the number of Covid beds again immediately as the demand of non-Covid patients is also very high.”
The chief executive of Peerless Hospital ‘Sudipta Mitra said: “We have 40 Covid beds and seven of them are ICU beds. Only one ICU bed and five non-ICU beds are vacant. We have thought about converting one more ward into a Covid ward. But there are 42 non-Covid patients in that ward now. We have to wait till they are discharged…. It will take some time.”
The demand for more beds was noticed in most private hospitals. The group of chief executive officers of AMRI hospital Rupak Barua, said: all fifty-five care beds for COVID-19 patients at its units in Dhakuriya, Mukundapur, and Salt Lake were occupied.
Rupak Barua said: “We have planned to add 20 ICU beds from Monday. All the 55 ICU beds are occupied now. It has remained so for the last two-three days.”
In Bengal the number of active cases of COVID-19 rise on Friday by 2,494 to 18,603. The record of the state is 3,648 new cases and 1,146 recovered in a day.
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