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Sensible suggestion from Dr Devi Shetty April 30, 2021, 11:53 PM IST Quick takes, analyses and macro-level views on all contemporary economic, financial and political events. In India’s fight against Covid-19, the focus has been on equipment, oxygen, medication and vaccines. The state of medical personnel — doctors, nurses and aides — has escaped focus, except for individual experts such as Dr Devi Prasad Shetty. Medical manpower is likely to be t...

A number of doctors and nurses have contracted Covid despite being fully vaccinated against the disease, a trend that will only intensify the crisis in Covid management unless corrective measures are immediately taken. Public health experts and hospital officials said unless a pool of doctors from all fields is created, the crisis of medical personnel would be as severe as that of Covid beds. At all three hospitals of the AMRI group in Calcutta, about 70 healthcare personnel, including junior d...

Now that the worldwide coverage of India’s crisis over oxygen, ICU beds and medicine is concentrating minds in officialdom, public health and medical planners would do well to anticipate the next big steps in managing the Covid-19 crisis, both for this second wave and the third wave that will follow almost inevitably. The principal crisis going forward will be the shortage of medical professionals. How can this be addressed? Cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty made some sensible suggestions at a re...

Read more about India will need 500,000 ICU beds, 350,000 medical staff in next few weeks on Business Standard. At present, India has 90,000 ICU beds and almost all are already occupied - when the second wave of the pandemic hasnt even reached its peak yet, says noted surgeon Dr Devi Prasad Shetty

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Representative image NEW DELHI: For the ninth day in a row, India recorded over 3 lakh cases, inching closer to the 4 lakh mark with 3,86,693 cases on Thursday. The country reported 3,502 deaths, amid widespread reports of underreporting of fatalities with a gross mismatch of reported deaths and actual cremations across the country. Cases have been higher than 3 lakh for 9 days in a row now. The country’s positivity rate is at 21.2% (based on smoothed 7 day rolling average of cases and tests...

This time, it is personnel This time, it is personnel BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / Updated: Apr 28, 2021, 06:00 IST Hospitals are fighting covid-19 with 40% less staff and are looking for volunteers to defeat the virus It’s not just ordinary people who are facing a shortage of beds, medicines, oxygen, drugs, ventilators, plasma ... Hospitals too are facing a shortage - of manpower. So bad is the shortage - about 40 per cent - that hospitals are now sending an SOS to the State Government se...

A patient wearing an oxygen mask is wheeled inside a Covid-19 hospital for treatment in Ahmedabad on April 26. — Reuters Exhausted workers, who bring dead bodies for cremation, sit on the rear step of an ambulance inside a crematorium, in New Delhi on April 24. — AP Much needed medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as overrun hospitals turned away patients due to a shortage of beds and oxygen supplies and a surge of infections pushed the Covid-19 death toll towards 200,000. A shipm...

Source: Highlights A shipment of medical supplies from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi. France is also sending oxygen generators that can provide year-long oxygen for 250 beds. Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged all citizens to get vaccinated and exercise caution amid the "storm" of infections. New Delhi: Much needed medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday (April 27) as overrun hospitals turned away patients due to a shortage of beds and o...

Published Tuesday, April 27, 2021 7:21AM EDT Last Updated Tuesday, April 27, 2021 7:26AM EDT NEW DELHI, April 27 (Reuters) -- Vital medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000. A shipment from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi, said Reuters partner ANI, while Fran...