Telangana to make 3,000 more oxygen beds available
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Hyderabad, April 27 : Telangana Health Minister Eatala Rajender announced on Tuesday that another 3,010 oxygen beds will be available at the government-run hospitals in the state within a week.
The Health Minister told reporters that a total of 10,000 oxygen beds are available across the state. He pointed out that when the pandemic broke out, the state had only 1,770 oxygen beds but the government took steps on a war footing to ramp up the numbers.
The Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad has 600 ICU beds. He claimed that it is the only hospital in the country which has all its beds as ICU beds. A decision has been taken to provide oxygen supply to another 400 beds at the Gandhi Hospital.
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Ambulance shortage grips city
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Ambulances not responding on time, charging double of what they used to
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While patients wait for ambulances, these emergency vehicles are caught up in making rounds of hospitals with patients and their family members.
Ambulances not responding on time, charging double of what they used to
Ambulance drivers in the State capital are stressed for COVID-19 related emergencies now, as there are only about 500 private medical vehicles and the requirement keeps going up.
On the one hand, there are complaints that ambulances are not responding on time for emergencies, and on the other, the ambulance drivers are unable to attend the family members of patients managing to get admission at hospitals due to lack of beds.
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Faculty phone numbers on hospital bed helpline
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Telangana Health department’s website which displays real time availability of beds in COVID-19 hospitals had an error which blocked information from at least four major government hospitals.
The phone numbers displayed against the four hospitals were that of faculty members from their respective microbiology departments and they were not related to uploading or disseminating information about availability of beds.
The website ‘health.telangana.gov.in’ displays availability of regular beds, oxygen beds, and ICU or ventilator beds in government and private hospitals. This data is updated regularly. Along with information on beds, phone numbers of each facility are mentioned. This initiative had been greatly appreciated by people from various quarters.