After becoming the worst-hit district in Maharashtra by Covid-19 second wave, Pune has witnessed 6,000 fresh instances for the second consecutive day on March 25, Thursday generating authorities rush to ramp up wellness infrastructure.
Pune as a district now has 50,000 active instances. The city added 5, 741 instances on Wednesday. The exponential surge in instances got the Union Health Ministry worries as it named an emergency meeting of all wellness secretaries and district administration heads and on Saturday to refine tactics that can manage the spread of the Covid-19 infection.
More than 85 per cent of beds at all hospitals below the Pune Municipal Corporation allocated for Covid-19 remedy are occupied, reported the IE. Only 270 out of 2,137 allocated beds are had been at present vacant and only 125 more beds can get an oxygen provide technique. There are a total of 162 beds attached to ventilators and there is a capacity to add an additional 14 patients.
In Pimpri-Chinchwad, exactly where the circumstances are comparatively greater, more than 1.375 of the 3,443 beds are vacant. But with the increasing quantity of instances, authorities are worried they will quickly run out of patient beds.
PMC more Municipal Commissioner, Rubal Agarwal mentioned he has asked hospitals to no cost more beds for Covid patients and retain the 80:20 rule below the Epidemic Act exactly where a private hospital requires to reserve 80 per cent beds for Covid-19 patients at government-mandated prices. However, the hospitals are facing the dilemma of instantly discharge other patients below remedy to no cost the beds. Nevertheless, the specialists are working at managing the capacity properly affirmed Mr Aggarwal.
Another dilemma that the regional authorities managing hospital beds is facing that the quantity of hospitals providing Covid-19 remedy has lowered to half compared to the peal season final year and resorted to all other sorts of remedy. Some of the hospitals like the Noble hospital, Bharati hospitals do not have the infrastructure to stretch their bed strength additional. Moreover, patients from places outdoors PMC looking for hospital admission are worsening the matter, mentioned district administration heads and.
At Symbiosis Hospital, 500 Covid-19 beds had been earmarked final year but now nearly half of them are occupied by non-Covid patients. Although most of them has delayed their surgeries, but then they the beds are complete, mentioned Dr Vijay Natarajan, CEO of the hospital.
KEM hospitals has 118 beds allocated for Covid-19 patients with 18 ICU, all of which are at present occupied. Sahyadri Hospital has 222 Covid-19 patients at 5 of its centres. In Pimpri-Chinchwad, jumbo hospital facilities are getting added whilst in rural places, Covid care centres will treat the Covid-19 patients there.