. SAST received around 4,535 requests for ICU ventilator beds last week, and could only provide 56 beds Despite enforcing reforms after the bed-blocking controversy, the sorry fact is that people are still dying for want of ICU beds and ICU ventilators. On Tuesday morning, a 42-year-old man, died after waiting for over 48 hours for a ventilator bed as their turn was slotted for after around 100 people on the waiting list. The man is survived by his wife and three children. Nandish, (name changed), a resident of Yelahanka, was infected with covid and had high fever, cough and breathlessness when he was admitted in a private hospital on Friday. His family had been searching for an ICU ventilator bed since Saturday as his saturation level kept dropping and he had severe lung infection.