Desperate Calls Of Help Flood Twitter As People Face Shortage Of Beds, Plasma In Several States
The grim COVID-19 situation in Delhi triggered a flurry of SOS posts on Twitter. Twitter is abuzz with desperate calls of help from people who have a COVID positive patient in their families. Some claimed that while the Delhi Corona app showed that beds are available in certain hospitals in the city the situation on the ground is different.
A man desperate to find a hospital bed for his "extremely weak" 60-year-old mother, another looking for anti-viral drug Remdevisir and a woman looking for a plasma donor for a friend's uncle fighting for his life - the grim COVID-19 situation in Delhi triggered a flurry of SOS posts on Twitter.
The situation is similar in other states too.
Twitter is abuzz with desperate calls of help from people who have a COVID positive patient in their families.
¡ª Srinivas B V (@srinivasiyc) April 17, 2021
Some claimed that while the Delhi Corona app showed that beds are available in certain hospitals in the city, the situation on the ground is different. Hospitals are not admitting patients as they have run out of beds, they said.
The Delhi Corona app allows people to check the availability of beds in government and private hospitals in the national capital.
I will be visiting LNJP hospital this afternoon to inspect each & every ward personally, further streamline operations & minimize inconvenience faced by patients. Needless to say that the system is overwhelmed but we are giving our blood,sweat & tears in this fight against Covid.
¡ª Raghav Chadha (@raghav_chadha) April 18, 2021
Amid the spiralling COVID-19 crisis in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said 6,000 more beds will be added in the next three to four days and warned hospitals of strict action if they are found giving wrong information or turning away coronavirus patients despite availability of beds.
He also asked the Centre to reserve 50 per cent beds in central government hospitals in Delhi for COVID-19 patients.
Shortage of beds in Lucknow
A shortage of hospital beds in Lucknow seems to have kept a 65-year-old COVID-19 patient waiting for proper treatment.
The family members of the woman claimed that she could not be admitted to a hospital as no beds were available in the capital city of Uttar Pradesh.
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"My grandmother cannot be admitted as there is no bed in any hospital in Lucknow. Despite calling the helpline number, there is no concrete response. The oxygen level, which was 66, has now dropped to near 40. It is an alarming sign," the grandson of the woman said.
He said another of his relatives has an oxygen level of 65, but her treatment could not be started as the RT-PCR report is awaited.
Situation grim in Maharashtra
"The situation is horrible. We are a 900-bed hospital, but there are about 60 patients waiting and we don't have space for them," said Avinash Gawande, an official at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Nagpur, a commercial hub in Maharashtra.
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Resident doctors of Pune's Sassoon General Hospital went on strike on Saturday over the shortage of manpower at the hospital to treat the patients.
The emergency services will be continued during the protest.
