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Several private medical hospitals are still delaying handing over beds to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). On Saturday, Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta visited Vikram Hospital, Shifaa Hospital, and HBS Hospital and directed health officials to issue show-cause notices to the managements for failing to comply.
This is the second time in a week that the civic body has served notice to Vikram Hospital. Mr. Gupta told reporters later that 11,000 beds would be available under the government quota over the next few days.
In the backdrop of complaints from people who still have to wait for days to get their COVID-19 test results, Mr. Gupta said action would be taken against labs that do not upload the results on the ICMR portal in time.
Beds reserved in private medical colleges
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The Department of Health and Family Welfare has turned to private medical college hospitals to address the acute shortage of beds. “Seventy-five percent of beds in private medical college hospitals having facilities to treat COVID-19 patients shall be reserved for the treatment of patients referred by the public health authorities. This will include the HDU and ICU beds, both with and without ventilators,” stated a notification by the State government.
Action will be taken against institutions that fail to comply as per the Disaster Management Act, besides legal action under relevant sections of the IPC.
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A temporary hospital to face the third wave
A temporary hospital to face the third wave
ByNaveen MenezesNaveen Menezes / Updated: Apr 23, 2021, 06:00 IST
Even as we battle the second wave, the
state government is mulling over a proposal to build a 1,000-bed
hospital with ICU for future use
A nticipating the third wave of covid-19, the State Government is considering the proposal of building a 1,000-bed hospital with intensive care units (ICU). This was revealed by
Gaurav Gupta, Chief Commissioner of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (
BBMP). He was responding to a query on the shortage of
beds for Covid-19 patients.
Both government and private hospitals in the City has only about 700
Bengaluru Hospitals Run Low On ICU Beds As Covid Numbers Spiral Bengaluru Hospitals Run Low On ICU Beds As Covid Numbers Spiral The state government says it will meet the shortfall.
The system is struggling to keep pace with the deluge of patients in this second Covid wave
Bengaluru:
With 137,813 active Covid cases in the city, hospitals in Bengaluru are running short of ICU beds, with several among them displaying a No ICU beds sign. The numbers needing intensive care are more than the health system of one of the medically best-equipped cities in India can bear.
The struggle for an ICU bed in Bengaluru - as in many places around the country amid the deadly sweep of the second coronavirus wave - is real and often a matter of life and death.