Demand for oxygen beds starts declining in Chennai
May 27, 2021
The average stay of an ICU patient is around 14 days and it can go up to 21 days or longer - The Hindu
The average stay of an ICU patient is around 14 days and it can go up to 21 days or longer - The Hindu×
However, larger hospitals continue to see demand for ICU beds
Demand for oxygen beds in Chennai has eased with the number of Covid cases declining in the last 10 days. However, the need for ICU beds dropped only by a fraction and continues to be high.
As per data available in public domain, with 1,171 beds with oxygen support, occupancy on May 4 was 93.9 per cent. This peaked at 99.1 per cent on May 12 and since then has declined to 87.9 per cent on Thursday.
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Though there were indeed such infections in the past, the recent outbreak has raised a lot of questions due to the high mortality rate found in Covid-19 patients who contract the fungal infection.
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Dr V Ashwin Karuppan, Consultant (Internal Medicine), Critical Care and Diabetology at Gleneagles Global Health City (Photo | Express)
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CHENNAI: While the country is battling Covid-19’s second wave, black-fungus infection or Mucormycosis, a rare but a potentially life-threatening fungal attack, is on the rise. Recently, the Union health ministry had asked all states to classify the infection as a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897.
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