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BENGALURU: As the Covid second wave rages on, private hospitals are asking patients to hunt for ICU beds on their own. A woman Covid patient, 44-yearold Chandra Kumari (name changed), who was being treated at Ravi Kirloskar Hospital, was told to find an ICU bed as her condition started deteriorating with her oxygen saturation levels dipping.
When her family members called up the BBMP helpline, they were told to go to a hospital in Rajarajeshwarinagar where she had been allocated a bed. As they were getting ready to leave, the hospital called them up and asked them not to come as no ICU beds were available. The anxious relatives had not found a bed, even 24 hours after the search.
The pandemic is running its cruel course, leaving in its wake orphaned children and broken homes.
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BENGALURU: The pandemic is running its cruel course, leaving in its wake orphaned children and broken homes. In many cases, children are left in the custody of a close relative or friend as their parents battle Covid in hospitals, sometimes successfully, and sometimes not. Faced with such a situation, the medical fraternity is now concerned about the future of such children.
Paediatrician and adolescent health specialist Dr Preethi Galgali said, “The medical fraternity has been very concerned about the orphaning of children. Some hospitals are working out the finer details of what to do with the child, and getting parents to sign a declaration or give instructions when entire families are hospitalised, about what should be done if anything goes wrong.
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BENGALURU: Bhavika Mayuri (name changed) who was asked to leave Specialist Hospital here in the city on Friday after the hospital ran out of medical oxygen, on Saturday boarded an ICU ambulance which was to take her to a hospital in Chennai. A number of other less severe patients left the hospital on Friday, but Bhavika managed to remain there till Saturday, until arrangements were made for her travel.
Her efforts to contact police to ensure the hospital did not forcibly evict her, had yielded no results because the hospital reportedly told her outright there was no more oxygen left. This is the situation in many other hospitals in Bengaluru. Bhavika had checked with other hospitals in the city, but was told that they either had no beds or oxygen, or would soon run out of oxygen supply.
Ministers, Opposition spar over mismanagement amid Covid spike
Ugly scenes marked the Bengaluru legislators’ meet in Vidhana Soudha on Monday, with Opposition MLAs charging the government with mismanagement o f the Cov i d - 1 9 situation.
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BENGALURU: Ugly scenes marked the Bengaluru legislators’ meet in Vidhana Soudha on Monday, with Opposition MLAs charging the government with mismanagement o f the Covid-19 situation. The MLAs said that every day, they get calls from families, with fervent pleas for beds. Shivajinagar MLA Rizwan Arshad claimed that despite being an MLA, he was unable to get a single bed, and asked how the common man was expected to get a bed.
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BENGALURU: At 9.30am Sunday, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa set off on a 290-km drive to Belludi, close to Harihar, and reached after three hours. He participated in the anniversary celebrations of a mutt, and began his return journey to Bengaluru around 1.30pm, reaching after 4.30pm. A 600-km journey by road can be exhausting, but CM Yediyurappa was forced to undertake the trip as his logistics team couldn’t find a chopper for hire, and gave up after a hard week-long search.
With elections in a number of states, choppers are hard to come by, having been booked months in advance. For the record, Karnataka does not own an official helicopter.CEO of Agni Aviation Capt Arvind Sharma said, “Since it’s election time in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry, besides bypolls in Karnataka and elsewhere, choppers are in high demand, and most of them have been booked by political parties.’’