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No Oxygenated Beds, Pune Hospital Sets Up Triage For Patients. (Representational)
Pune:
In an indication that the healthcare system in Maharashtra might get overwhelmed in the coming days because of the huge rise in the COVID-19 cases, a civic-run hospital near Pune is forced to set up a triage facility outside to provide oxygen support to patients as the available number of oxygenated beds remained occupied.
Pune district reported a record 12,494 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the overall tally to 5,74,829, the third consecutive day when new case addition peaks were touched, according to an official.
With the number of cases rising sharply in Pune district, there is a shortage of beds in hospitals.
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COVID-19 nightmare: Pune hospital sets up triage for patients; Oxygen demand goes up three-fold in Aurangabad
Pune Municipal Corporation s (PMC) dashboards showed that beds were not available in the civic and private hospitals under the category of the ICU beds with ventilator as on 8 PM on Sunday.
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PUNE: In an indication that the healthcare system in Maharashtra might get overwhelmed in the coming days because of the huge rise in the COVID-19 cases, a civic-run hospital near Pune is forced to set up a triage facility outside to provide oxygen support to patients as the available number of oxygenated beds remained occupied.