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The number of new Covid cases has dropped sharply but at several hospitals the percentage of critical patients is higher than those in the general ward, said doctors and officials of healthcare facilities.
On Tuesday, June 22, Bengal reported 1,852 Covid cases and 47 deaths. According to the state health department data, 9.67 per cent of the total Covid beds were occupied.
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One month back, on May 22, 18,863 new cases were detected in the state and there were 154 deaths. On that day, 37.58 per cent of the Covid beds were occupied.
Doctors and officials of several hospitals said although the bed occupancy had come down drastically along with fresh cases, the percentage of critical patients was high.
KOLKATA: He was just 27 days old when diagnosed with a rare congenital heart disease. Even as doctors prepared to operate, came the next bad news he was also Covid-positive. But the infant, now 50 days old, has managed to beat both. For Arup and Jaba Chandra, the joy of becoming parents was cruelly tempered just days before their baby turned a month old, when they found he had obstructed cardiac TAPVC (Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection), a rare condition affecting less than 1 in 10,000 babies. The residents of Katwa in Burdwan had noticed that the baby was gasping for breath. The anxious parents rushed the boy named Kian to a government hospital in Burdwan, which asked them to go to Kolkata.
Several private hospitals have reported a reduced footfall for Covid vaccines on their premises over the past week.
The good in that is the decentralisation of the vaccination drive seems to have had an effect. And the bad is that some doctors and public health experts see fresh hesitancy creeping in with swirling rumours about adverse effects and efficacy.
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Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals was vaccinating 800 to 900 people every day on its premises. But over the past week, the footfall has come down to around 500.
“The frantic calls for slots, which we had been getting since the beginning of May, have stopped,” said an official of the hospital. The reduced footfall at the hospital could be because many other centres in the city are vaccinating people.”
Corporate houses as well as medium and small-scale units want their employees vaccinated against Covid. Almost every household wants its domestic help inoculated.
The demand for Covid jabs has been on the rise as an increasing number of people are realising that only a widespread vaccination could result in an early resumption of some form of normality.
However, an uncertainty over supply is proving to be a stumbling block to faster vaccination.
Several private hospitals in the city are flooded with requests from corporate houses to set up Covid vaccination centres for the employees on their premises.
Woodlands Hospital has been requested by 990 companies to vaccinate their employees. Fortis Hospital has received 130 such requests.