Coronavirus | In Bengaluru, confusion over beds, crackdown on labs
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There isn’t yet a transparent system to track available COVID-19 beds in private hospitals
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An elederly woman receiving COVID19 vaccine dose, at K C General Hospital , in Bengaluru on April 28, 2021. | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K
There isn’t yet a transparent system to track available COVID-19 beds in private hospitals
Prabhu Prasad (name changed), 41, tested positive for COVID-19 last week. Since then, he and his wife, who also tested positive, had been isolating themselves at home.
On Wednesday morning, when Mr. Prasad’s oxygen saturation levels were dropping, he contacted the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) control room seeking a bed in a hospital. After several calls, he was sent an ambulance and asked to go to a private hospital in south Bengaluru.