Karnataka Govt Warns Of Action Against Hospitals Not Reserving Beds For COVID-19 Patients
by IANS - May 12, 2021 04:24 AM
Hospital beds at Rajiv Gandhi super speciality hospital in New Delhi. (Arun Sharma/Hindustan Times via GettyImages)
Amid the unprecedented second wave of Covid-19 and sudden spike in cases, Karnataka on Tuesday (11 May) warned to initiate legal action against all those hospitals that have failed to hand over beds to the government till date.
Karnataka revenue minister, R Ashoka and Home Minister, Basavaraj Bommai held a virtual meeting with officials concerned to address Bengaluru s shortage of beds and decided to initiate legal action against errant hospitals.
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Amid the unprecedented second wave of Covid-19 and sudden spike in cases, Karnataka on Tuesday warned legal action against all those hospitals that have failed to hand over beds to the government till date.
Karnataka revenue minister, R. Ashoka and Home Minister, Basavaraj Bommai held an virtual meeting with officials concerned here to address Bengaluru s shortage of beds and decided to initiate legal action against errant hospitals here.
The revenue minister said that all hospitals within the Bengaluru Civic Body limits including those with 20-30 beds capacity and over 100 beds, must be inspected and seize 50 per cent of these beds must be seized immediately.
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Bengaluru is one of the worst-hit places with COVID-19. With each passing day the number of coronavirus cases are increasing. The state government is taking all the measures to control the spread of coronavirus.
Dr. CN Ashwath Narayana, Deputy Chief Minister and Chairman of the State Covid Task Force, directed officials on Monday to upload the data on to the portal within the next three days. The officials have been directed to incorporate real-time data of oxygen supply, antiviral drug Remdesivir, and beds allocated under government quota in private hospitals on to the Suvarna Arogya Suraksha Trust (SAST) portal to ensure systematic delivery of services.
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May 10, 2021 11:12 IST
A senior civic official, in charge of bed allotment in Bengaluru, acknowledged these glitches and said ‘the software is under review and they will be fixed’.
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A senior civic official, in charge of bed allotment in Bengaluru, acknowledged these glitches and said ‘the software is under review and they will be fixed’. Glitches in the hospital bed allocation system of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) are adding to the anxiety of families of critically ill COVID-19 patients.
Take the case of Monisha Gupta (name changed), whose mother was in a high dependency unit (HDU) bed allotted by the city’s civic body. Her condition worsened and she needed to be upgraded to an ICU bed. “Hospital staff told me that when they sought an ICU bed through the software, the HDU bed occupied by the patient was displayed as vacant in the BBMP’s bed allotment portal. This meant that it was back in the system ready to be allotte
Karnataka to buy 2 lakh pulse oximeters
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Bengaluru, May 10 : Karnataka has decided to buy 2 lakh pulse oximeters for treating Covid patients, Deputy Chief Minister C.N. Ashwath Narayan said on Monday. We have decided to procure 2 lakh pulse oximeters, including 25,000 in the first phase, to overcome their shortage and supply them to state-run hospitals for treating Covid patients, Narayan, who heads the state s task force set up to contain the virus spread, told reporters here.
Warning of legal action against those taking advantage of shortages and selling medical oxygen, pulse oximeters and anti-viral drug Remdesivir at exorbitant prices, Narayan urged the public to file complaints against offenders at 112, the helpline number the state government has set up for fighting Covid.