Express News Service HYDERABAD: Though the State government’s dashboard on status of beds indicates ample availability, many private hospitals in Telangana are turning down Covid-19 patients in need of oxygen and ICU support, leaving their families in a lurch. Reportedly, private hospitals are being forced to arbitrarily downsize bed strength owing to acute shortage of oxygen.At 12 pm on Thursday, the real-time dashboard showed that 460 oxygen beds were available at private hospitals in Hyderabad district. However, when Express spoke to nearly 12 hospitals — which, as per the dashboard, had 10-50 beds each — it was found that the data was largely incorrect. Amongst these 12 hospitals, only two had a handful of oxygen beds.It may be mentioned that the dashboard had listed at least 120 private facilities with oxygen beds, but a majority of them had just 1-2 beds in all.